Champagne Wine

Entirely Pinot Noir the 2019 Champagne Grand Cru Verzy Le Cepage is fleshy with kirsch yellow flowers and orange peel and is structured and dry with savory salinity grapefruit pith and crushed rock. This is a wine that can hold... Read More

As I wrote last year, the young Adrien Renoir took over this four-hectare domaine in Verzy a few years ago, launching his eponymous label in 2019. Working exclusively with estate fruit, he abandoned herbicides in 2015 and attained... Read More

Fermented in wood with a touch of spice and toast on the palate this Champagne is beautifully textured and structured. The Chardonnay gives the wine a steely edge that suggests the bottling could age so wait to drink this very... Read More

The Brut Reserve is a light fine and harmonious champagne. Its blend is made with Pinot Noir Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier from three different years sourced from the best sites in the Champagne region.

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""The tiny mousse tells a lot about the quality of this impressive Champagne. It is quite full in style with flavors of white currants and a rich but still bone-dry aftertaste. It is a perfect food Champagne with structure and... Read More

Disgorged with two grams per liter dosage Billecart-Salmon's 2009 Extra Brut Vintage is more giving and demonstrative than its 2008 counterpart offering up inviting aromas of crisp stone fruit yellow apple brioche honeycomb... Read More

One of the great rosés this Champagne named after a member of the family is ripe with layers of red fruits and tight acidity. This vintage is still amazingly young fresh and crisp with only a hint of maturity creeping in at the... Read More

Chardonnay from the Côte des Blancs lends itself to a Champagne that is finely textured and impressively fruity and structured. The wine has a steely edge that suggests this bottling is young but that also has beautiful fruit... Read More

Based on the 2016 vintage the new NV Brut Rosé from Billarcart-Salmon has turned out nicely mingling notes of red berries and plums with notions of peach dried flowers and orange rind. Medium to full-bodied pillowy and elegant... Read More

Disgorged on July 10 2020 with three grams per liter dosage Bollinger's eagerly awaited 2007 Extra-Brut R. D. is beautiful unwinding in the glass with aromas of crisp orchard fruit citrus pith and white flowers mingled with... Read More

Raised entirely in barrel, the 2014 Champagne La Grande Année Brut is all about finesse and capturing the cool, mineral tension and floral notes of the vintage. Enhancing those qualities, a bit higher proportion of Chardonnay... Read More

Based on the 2018 vintage Chartogne's latest NV Brut Rosé was disgorged in May 2021 with around six grams per liter dosage. Offering up aromas of pear tangerine and plums it's medium to full-bodied seamless and fleshy... Read More

"The latest installment of one of my favorite “intro-level� Champagnes the Chartogne-Taillet NV Brut Cuvee Ste.-Anne Disg. 6/2013 pushes the qualitative element even beyond what I recall under this label from two or three... Read More

A new cuvée for Chartogne the inaugural release of the NV Extra-Brut Saint-Thierry derives exclusively from the 2016 vintage—the year being denoted by the #16 on the label. Mingling aromas of pear and yuzu with white flowers... Read More

The inaugural Clandestin NV Brut Nature Les Grandes Lignes is a 100% Chardonnay from a single south-facing parcel on shallow Kimmeridgian clay-limestone soils in the Aube. Entirely harvested in 2015 it was barrel fermented (in... Read More