Antoine Chevalier’s grandfather and father began planting Champagne vines in 1974 but he is the first of the family to start making and bottling wine. This is organically farmed Chardonnay from the lieu-dit Les Bas du Mont... Read More
The Billecart family makes classic Champagne and this is a lovely introduction to the style. It’s roughly equal parts Pinot Noir, Meunier and Chardonnay from 2019 and nearly 40% reserve wines going back to 2016 with about... Read More
No subscription required! The January, 2025, Champagne Club release is a stunner, featuring two brilliant, small production, wines at pretty huge savings. Available for pick-up on Wednesday, January 15, this month’s offerings... Read More
Sign up for the first three releases of the CBC Champagne Club before Christmas and you’ll pay $150 per month ($450 total) for the first three releases. Then, you’re invited to continue monthly at $160/month for the... Read More
For the past six years, this has been a terrific Brut Champagne at a crazy good price. It comes from a co-op founded in 1959 to help grape growers in Aube, the southern part of Champagne, get a little better deal from the big... Read More
This small cooperative winery in the heart of Champagne has struck gold with this cuvee- and yellow label gold at that. Because the Charles Clement Brut Tradition is the kind of wine that will thrill anyone who loves... Read More
As Antonio Galloni wrote earlier this year, “A decidedly mythical figure in the world of Champagne, Mignon’s philosophy takes familiar concepts of sustainability and expounds upon them with an almost spiritual, all-encompassing... Read More
As Antonio Galloni said 10 years ago, “Christophe Mignon might very well be the finest grower in Champagne most people have not heard about yet.” Which explains why none of us knew you could make something so precise,... Read More
Organic/Bio For decades, the Dekeyne family sold their 5 HA of grapes from the Cote de Sezanne to large houses in Epernay and Reims until brothers Gael and Baptiste recently began to bottle their own Champagne. It's outstanding,... Read More
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This small and young house in the Cotes de Sezane is doing everything right from organic farming to meticulous winemaking and only bottling single vintage, single vineyard, wines. This is 90% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot... Read More
Organic/Bio Grapes from this far west in the Marne tend to end up in mass-produced NV blends, but since their first release in 20202, the brother/sister team of Jean-Rémi and Melanie Drémont are proving that really... Read More
With 10 years on the lees, this powerful blend of 50% Pinot Noir, 35% Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier delivers extraordinary aromatic complexity and freshness. Notes of lemon curd, toast, tart cherry, pie crust and salty caramel... Read More
Organic/Bio Pierre Fresne’s top wine honors his grandfather, founder of the estate. It’s 95% 2010 from 60% Chardonnay and 20% each Pinot Noir and Meunier with 20% aged in barrel, resting sur latte for 12 years under... Read More
A completely delicious "drinker's Champagne" with lots of time on the lees to develop toastiness and creaminess of texture. We love how the brioche notes linger here.
Dom Perignon - yes, he was a real winemaking monk! - pioneered the making of white Champagne from black Pinot Noir grapes in the 1600s. The techniques were refined by the large houses in Champagne's northern regions, but somehow... Read More
Think of this as French Pinot Noir with bubbles and you’ll be on the right track. In contrast to Vesselle’s ever-popular Oeil de Perdrix (the lightest rosé Champagne we know of), this is the darkest and most... Read More
The Jeeper house style is to emphasize wininess, and you'll find that here in a blend of 60% Chardonnay, 25% Pinot Noir and 15% Pinot Meaunier with barrel-aged reserve wines, four years on the lees and a mellow dosage. Lemon... Read More
A rich, toasty, almost creamy Blanc de Blancs that really caresses your palate with flavor and fine, soft, bubbles. James Suckling's 92 point review of this release is spot on: I like the dried fruit and nut undertones, with... Read More
Precise, toasty, sexy. James Suckling's 95 point review tells the tale here: This a special bottling of 1.2 to 1.5 kilos of grapes per vine, all chardonnay vinified separately, having calculated the perfect kilo-per-vine balance... Read More
Delphine Laborde's second vintage from this 1.1 acre site overlooking Reims and planted in the early 1970s is crisp, clear and compelling. White fruit, lightly toasted bread and sliced ginger aromas and flavors begin with... Read More
Delphine Laborde and her husband, Pierre-Emmanuel, made just 40 cases (480 bottles) of Rosé Champagne for their first release, so we were pretty delighted to get 72 bottles. This is around 55% Chardonnay and 45% Pinot Noir... Read More
Richer than this year's 2017 base-vintage release, this still delivers plenty of energy to match the deeply textured mouthfeel. As Suckling says in his 92 point review, Very clean and bright with transparency of sliced lemon,... Read More
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