The NV Brut Blanc de Blancs Solera is made from Chardonnay picked in Fèrebrianges Etoges Congy and Sézanne based half on the 2020 vintage and half on a perpetual reserve started in 2013. Serene aromas of creaminess and golden... Read More

The 2019 Champagne Elevage Long is entirely Pinot Noir and is the most robust wine in the range with the base wine aged for two years in barrel. Revealing notes of fresh baked bread licorice wet stone and Amarena black cherries... Read More

The NV Extra Brut Le Cépage Grand Cru Verzy is a pure Pinot Noir. The mellow creaminess of oak is im

The NV Le Terroir a blend of equal parts Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Verzy is a fine introduction to this range. Bright sculpted and airy Le Terroir has a lot to offer. Dried citrus peel chamomile crushed flowers and a hint... Read More

The NV Rosé Les 2 Terroirs (2020 base) is a rich, heady wine. It offers notable textural richness and volume, with terrific freshness to pull it all together. Like all the 2020s here, the Rosé is a bit vegetal, but... Read More

The 2018 Extra-Brut Blanc de Noirs Mailly-Champagne Grand Cru is powerful deep and expressive its mid-weight structure notwithstanding. Kirsch mint cedar and tobacco lend notable aromatic presence. The lighter style of the year... Read More

The 2016 Extra-Brut Avize Grand Cru is another compelling Champagne in this range from Bérêche. Exotic delicate and light on its feet this has so much to offer. Lemon confit graphite sage mint and dried herb inflections reveal... Read More

The 2020 Extra-Brut Chemin de Reims is gorgeous. In 2020 the Chemin de Reims is especially airy with an explosive bouquet mid-weight structure and fabulous balance. It is perhaps less rich and concentrated than the 2019 but so... Read More

The NV (2019) Brut Cuvée Ste.-Anne is fabulous. Rich, ample and layered, the Brut Cuvée Ste.-Anne hits all the right notes. I especially admire its vinous intensity and overall resonance. Dried pear, flowers mint,... Read More

The 2020 Extra-Brut Hors Série is especially lifted and aromatic. Chalk mint citrus peel slate and white pepper all take shape in the glass. Chartogne-Taillet fans will find a Champagne of great reserve tension and nuance. Brisk... Read More

The NV Brut Rosé (2020 base) is endowed with tons of energy and drive. In this release, the Rosé offers a good bit of tension, but there are also some savory, and at times vegetal, notes readers will have to contend... Read More

From Mesnil sur Oger the 2017 Champagne Côte Grand Cru pours a bright straw hue and is aromatic with notes of yellow apple and chalky stones. The palate is very long with a silky chalk texture as well as notes of lemon balm.... Read More

The 2016 Champagne Cote is bright effusive and charming right out of the gate. Apricot white flowers mint tangerine oil and marzipan are nicely pushed forward in this soft open-knit Champagne from vines in Cramant. Drink it over... Read More

Only made in magnums the 2013 Champagne Montagne - Rilly La Montagne Premier Cru saw 10 years on the lees before being disgorged in 2023. A bright straw hue its nose is savory and fresh with salty earth but it’s a bit shy and... Read More

Coming exclusively from other wine growers the NV Champagne Vallée Premier Cru is 70% Pinot 20% Chardonnay and 10% Meunier with 2015 as the base. It’s expressive with ripe aromas of tangerine savory broth and ripe nectarine... Read More

Year after year Egly’s NV Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru Les Crayères remains one of the most compelling and reliable wines from the Montagne de Reims. Sourced from a south-facing lieu-dit in Ambonnay that was planted between 1946... Read More

The 2015 Champagne Millésime is a bright straw color and is ripe and fruity on the nose with aromas of black cherries fresh violets savory saline and a hint of umami richness. The palate is full-bodied with no phenolic bitterness... Read More

The 2012 Brut Millésime Grand Cru is a Champagne of tremendous finesse and nuance with the Chardonnay really driving the balance today. Chalk white pepper mint sage and dried pear are some of the notes that come alive in the... Read More

To the best of my recollection the 2017 vintage was the first Cuvée Totum bottling from Emilien Feneuil that was crafted entirely from chardonnay. This is also the case with the beautiful new 2019 release. The wine is non-dosé... Read More

Emilien Feneuil’s single vineyard “les Ruisseaux” bottling is a Blanc de Noirs as the wine is made entirely from pinot meunier growing in this lieu à dit in Sermiers. The 2019 version was disgorged in April of 2022. It... Read More

Emilien Feneuil’s single vineyard “les Ruisseaux” bottling is a Blanc de Noirs as the wine is made entirely from pinot meunier growing in this lieu à dit in Sermiers. The 2019 version was disgorged in April of 2022. It... Read More

The 2019 vintage

I was unaware until very recently that the les Chênes vineyard in Cumières is one of the most important sites historically in all of Champagne and no less a figure than Dom Pérignon himself directed his acolytes at the Abbey... Read More

The new release of Jacquesson “Cuvée 744” Extra Brut from the Chiquet family is from the base year of 2016 and was disgorged in January of 2021. It was finished with a micro dosage of .75 grams per liter. It is hard to believe... Read More

Based on the 2018 vintage, which was an early solar ripe vintage, the NV Champagne Cuvée 746 sees two grams per liter of dosage and is about 50% Chardonnay, the rest Pinot Noir and Meunier, and approximately 25% reserve... Read More

A structured and creamy-textured Jacquesson NV with a very fine-bubble texture and lovely polish. It's medium- to full-bodied with length and sophistication in a friendly and approachable way. Yet there is something that tells... Read More

A collaboration between two sommelier friends and Michel Gonet the 2016 Rajat Parr & Marco Pelletier Brut Nature Blanc de Blanc Les Compères was disgorged May 2021 and derives from old vines in Mesnil sur Oger lieu-dit Les Hautes... Read More

A collaboration with rockstar sommeliers Rajat Parr and Marco Pelletier, the 2017 Champagne Les Hautes Mottes Brut Nature lends a reflective straw appearance and is inflected with a fresh, floral perfume of fresh linen, candied... Read More

Defined by its south-facing exposition and the warmth of the growing season Paillard's old-vine Chardonnay the 2019 Blanc de Blancs Bouzy Grand Cru Les Mottelettes is a muscular broad-shouldered and powerful expression of... Read More

The NV (2019) Extra Brut Les Terres Roses Bouzy Grand Cru is a blend of 64% Chardonnay and 36% Pinot Noir 5% of which were vinified as red wine all harvested in Bouzy and barrel-fermented. Juicy plum and red apple feature openly... Read More

The reserve wines bring a delicious, savoury sense of sourdough richness to fresh clementine, lemon and pale stone fruit, the tension of classic chalky villages still present but rounded out into a wine of impressive persistence.... Read More

Les Montjolys a single vineyard in Le Mesnil with an unusually rich silex soil tends to be a fleshier more immediate blanc de blancs than Les Chétillons highlighting just how radical the subtle changes in soil profile... Read More

A Champagne of gravitas and power, the 2014 LÉtonnant Monsieur Victor is endowed with notable resonance. Lemon confit, marzipan, white flowers, spice, licorice and graphite are amplified in a rich, vinous Champagne that... Read More

Disgorged in March 2024 with four grams per liter dosage based on the 2018 vintage (50%) and complemented by a perpetual reserve component that dates back to 1988 the NV Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Réserve Oubliée goes through... Read More

Another citrus-forward Champagne here, playing its rosé cards close to its chest and leaning more into white territory. A soft fruity palate follows aromas of grapefruit and orange rind, switching gear as the mousse expands... Read More

Champagne Valentin Leflaive represents a unique interpretation of champagne bringing a Burgundian approach from Olivier Leflaive and his team into the champagne making emphasized the purity of the Chardonnay and the terroir of... Read More

The fruit is more pronounced and forward in the 2015 Champagne Grand Cru Le Grand Jardin Oger Brut Nature with notes of apricot and peach rings white flowers and a sunny but fresh feel. It has more pronounced larger bubbles on... Read More

A hint of a darker profile comes from the aromas in the NV Champa