A luxury Champagne on every dimension other than price – and always on of our best-selling Champagnes for its compelling blend of delicious quality and remarkably low price. The 59 wine growers who make up this Aube-based... 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 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 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
A rarity - a Dom vintage that's delicious right away! As Wine Spectator says in the 96 point rave, There's a well-spiced, zesty edge to the flavors of glazed apple, mandarin orange peel, pink grapefruit pith and crème... Read More
Organic/Bio The “Méandre” here is a kink in the Marne River and frame’s Dremont-Marroy’s vineyards before flowing out of Champagne entirely. It’s already unusual to be making really good Champagne... 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 2020, the brother/sister team of Jean-Rémi and Melanie Drémont are proving that really... Read More
The label tells the story behind this one-time ever wine. In 2021, frost devastated the Mousse family’s vineyards. Facing an entire lost village, the family’s friends – top growers from across the region –... Read More
Since 2014, Pierre Fresne has made one or two Arquemie - or experimental - cuvees per year. This is his first 100% Pinot Noir from 2015 (63%) and a solera begun in 2012 done all in steel and disgorged in late 2023 with no dosage... Read More
Organic/Bio This far north in Montagne de Reims, Pinot Noir can struggle to mature but Pierre Fresne coaxes the 65% Pinot Noir, 5% Pinot Meunier and 35% Chardonnay used here to perfect ripeness. The wine is around 60% vintage... Read More
Organic/BioLower ABV Before bubbles took over in the 18th century, Champagne was most famous for it's very Burgundy-like red Pinot Noir. The tradition continues today in Coteaux Champenois like this one, 100% Pinot Noir made... Read More
The classic Champagne pre- and post-dinner sip made from unfermented Champagne grape juice fortified with brandy made from distilled Champagne base wine. It's a little spirity on the nose - a deep sniff will clear your head... 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.
Paul creates this wine to showcase the terroir of the 1er Cru vineyards of Vertus. Wines from here can bring forward more fruit and body than in some parts of the Cote de Blancs, and that’s certainly the case here in a generous... Read More
We think the March, 2025, Vinous review of this 100% Pinot Noir gets it mostly right: “The NV Brut Blanc de Noirs Premier Cru sports the merest touch of pink and the perfume of tart red and green apples. A trace of reductive... Read More
Organic/Bio Way back in Dom Perignon’s times, the hills from Bouzy to Ambonnay were rated among Champagne’s best for deep red wine and both were among the last to move to sparkling wine production as their main activity.... Read More
The Jacquesson Cuvee 746 is perhaps a touch more concentrated than most 2018-base bottlings, but still wide open and delicious for the blend of golden fruit, citrus and toast flavors that arrive with panache and linger nicely.... 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
The tiny production, much sought-after, Prevost Champagnes come and go all too quickly. This bottling is always all Grand Cru fruit but with a blend that varies every year. In this release, based on vintage 2023, it’s 100%... Read More
100% Meunier from a two hectare vineyard of Les Béguines in Gueux, inherited from Jérômes grandmother and planted in the 1950s. With 18 months on the lees and 0 dosage, this is always about the flavors of Prevost’s... 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
From the old Mum winery in Cramant, Gilles and son Julien Lancelot make delicious, stylish and dangerously drinkable Champagnes mainly, like this, from Chardonnay. From vines averaging 45 years age, it's mainly 2018 with 20... Read More
When your name is Lancelot, you have to make at least one reference to King Arthur! A truly regal Chardonnay Champagne from 50 year-old vines in Cramant, Avize, and Chouilly with 80% from 2019 and the balance from a perpetual... Read More
As Champagne expert says of Marc Hebrart’s Champagnes, “If you like to think about your wines, they’re intellectually engaging enough to satisfy you; on the other hand, if you’re just looking to drink,... Read More
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