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

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

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

A firm focused version wrapping the steely frame of acidity in a fine satiny mousse that carries well-meshed notes of toasted almond dried apricot fleur de sel and crystallized honey. Aging gracefully this lingers on the finish... Read More

A finely detailed Champagne with pointillist bubbles softly bursting on the palate carrying a delicate layered range of ripe raspberry and yellow peach candied ginger and crystalized honey chopped nuts and fleur de sel. Minerally... 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

The Pinot Noir based Les Semblables displayed a remarkably fresh mix of dried flowers and peach with fresh herbal tones and crushed stone minerality lifting from the glass. On the palate I found finely beaded textures giving way... Read More

Based on the 2018 vintage and disgorged in March 2021 without dosage the new rendition of Dehours's NV Extra-Brut Oeil de Perdrix is only very delicately tinted (keen amateur cooks will think of the skin of a Roscoff onion).... Read More

Delamotte's just-released 2014 Blanc de Blancs has turned out very well indeed opening in the glass with scents of citrus zest crisp orchard fruit fresh bread and wet stones. Medium to full-bodied chiseled and incisive with... Read More

Generous and dramatic Dhondt's NV Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Cramant (2018) bursts with aromas of citrus oil orchard fruit white flowers walnuts and fenugreek exhibiting only hints of the toasty nuances to come.... Read More