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
An old domaine (founded 1847) that has established itself with a place in the Champagne elite under the leadership of Raphael and Vincent Bereche. A delicious introduction to their work, this is a blend of equal part both Pinots... 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 A sizzling fresh blend of 35% Pinot Noir pressed white, 25% Chardonnay, and 40% Pinot Noir that’s crushed and allowed to soak on the skins for a couple of days before pressing and fermentation. Around 80% of... 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.
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
Jacquesson’s 700-series wines capture the essence of each vintage balanced by a just-right dollop of reserve wines for layered complexity. Despite the early-season heat spikes, 2019 is a fairly classic vintage in Champagne... Read More
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
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
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
A joyful, plump and fun rosé Champagne from old plantings of Pinot Meunier in the eastern part of the Marne Valley. It’s a 60/40 blend of the current and most recent previous vintages (so 2021/2020 here) and built... Read More
Blending 70% Pinot Meunier, 15% Chardonnay and 15% Pinot Noir, winemaker Gilles Lancelot achieves “major agreement” between Champagne's most important grapes coming from 40 parcels and vines averaging 50 years... 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
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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