Champagne Blend

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

""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

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

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

A graceful Champagne featuring fragrant notes of toasted brioche and grilled nut that are more subtle on the palate transitioning to a rich underpinning layered with a pure chime of tangerine and accents of candied ginger toasted... Read More

"Moet’s 2003 Brut Rose Dom Perignon exhibits both richness and robustness reflecting its torrid vintage yet manages to stint neither on primary juiciness nor transparency to nuance; nor does it come off as at all heavy. Lightly... Read More

The newly released 2008 Dom Pérignon Rosé is a dramatic perfumed wine bursting with aromas of blood orange iodine sweet citrus fruit peach and pear mingled with hints of buttered toast smoke and spices. Full-bodied textural... Read More

The newly released 2008 Dom Pérignon Rosé is a dramatic perfumed wine bursting with aromas of blood orange iodine sweet citrus fruit peach and pear mingled with hints of buttered toast smoke and spices. Full-bodied textural... Read More

The 2004 Dom PĂ©rignon P2 is drinking beautifully on release wafting from the glass with aromas of sweet orchard fruit fresh peach pastry cream buttered toast and cotton candy that display a less reductive profile than the original... Read More

This is certainly a mature Champagne. With its ripe character the dryness has softened to give richness a beautiful nutty flavor while retaining acidity. A very fine Champagne it is ready to drink now. ROGER VOSS

The NV V.P. Vielleisement Prolongé (base 2014) is a powerful explosive wine. The combination of the base year with the extended time on the lees and low dosage yields an especially stark austere Champagne that will need a few... Read More

Gosset's just-released 2008 Extra-Brut Celebris is showing beautifully out of the gates offering up sweet aromas of citrus oil dried white flowers warm biscuits and nougat with hints of the dried fruits to come. Medium to... Read More

Having retained all its youthful acidity because there was no malolactic fermentation, the Champagne is brilliantly lit. Acidity and a light texture from the Pinot Noir in the blend give the wine a crisp edge with still-young... Read More

A relatively discreet if very pretty nose reluctantly offers up notes of yeast green apple lemon peel and a hint of mandarin orange. There is a lovely texture to the distinctly tension-filled and well-delineated flavors that possess... Read More