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Champagne

Champagne is a small, beautiful wine growing region northeast of Paris whose famous name is misused a million times a day. As wine enthusiasts and all French people are well aware, only sparkling wines produced in Champagne from grapes grown in Champagne can be called Champagne. Sparkling wines produced anywhere else, including in other parts of France, must be called something besides Champagne. Champagne producers are justifiably protective of their wines and the prestige associated with true Champagne. Though the region was growing grapes and making wines in ancient times, it began specializing in sparkling wine in the 17th century, when a Benedictine monk named Dom Pierre Pérignon formulated a set guidelines to improve the quality of the local sparkling wines. Despite legends to the contrary, Dom Pérignon did not “invent” sparkling wine, but his rules about aggressive pruning, small yields and multiple pressings of the grapes were widely adopted, and by the 18th and 19th centuries Champagne had become the wine of choice in fashionable courts and palaces throughout Europe. Today there are 75,000 acres of vineyards in Champagne growing Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier. Champagne’s official appellation system classifies villages as Grand Cru or Premier Cru, though there are also many excellent Champagnes that simply carry the regional appellation. Along with well-known international Champagne houses there are numerous so-called “producer Champagnes,” meaning wines made by families who, usually for several or more generations, have worked their own vineyards and produced Champagne only from their own grapes.

2010 Moet et Chandon Dom Perignon

WE  96   
VN  93   
WA  92   
JR  18.5   

2010 Moet et Chandon Dom Perignon

WE  96   
VN  93   
WA  92   
JR  18.5   

2012 Moet et Chandon Dom Perignon

1-bottle Lot, Cardboard Case

VN  97   
WA  96+    
WS  96   
JR  18.5+    

2014 Louis Roederer

Light label condition issue

4 available
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2014 Louis Roederer

3 available
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2015 Louis Roederer

4 available
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2015 Louis Roederer

Light label condition issue

2012 Louis Roederer Cristal

WA  97   
WS  97   
18 available
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2012 Salon Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs

Light label condition issue

WA  98+    
WS  95   

2012 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs

JS  99   
WS  96   
VN  96   
WA  95+    
JR  18   
12 available
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2012 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs

1-bottle Lot, Cardboard Case

JS  99   
WS  96   
VN  96   
WA  95+    
JR  18   
3 available
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2017 Cédric Bouchard Roses de Jeanne Blanc de Blancs La Bolorée

Disgorged 2021

WA  96   
VN  94   
5 available
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2017 Cédric Bouchard Roses De Jeanne Blanc De Noirs Cote De Val Vilaine

Disgorged 04/2019

VN  93   
JR  17.5   
2 available
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2016 Cédric Bouchard Roses de Jeanne Blanc de Noirs Les Ursules

Disgorged 04/2020

WA  96+    
VN  95   

2017 Cédric Bouchard Roses de Jeanne Blanc de Noirs Les Ursules

Disgorged 2021

WA  97   
VN  93   

2020 Cédric Bouchard Roses De Jeanne Brut Cote De Val Vilaine

Disgorged 2022

6 available
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2010 Cédric Bouchard Roses De Jeanne Cote De Bechalin

Disgorgred 04/2017

WA  95   
VN  93   
2 available
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2014 Bollinger Grande Annee

Disgorged February 2023

France Direct
Expected Arrival:
10 weeks from purchase date
WS  97   
WA  95   
6 available
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2012 Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Brut La Grande Dame Yayoi Kusama

3 available
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2012 Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Vintage Rose

JS  94   
WS  92   
WE  92   
JR  17+    

2012 Charles Heidsieck Brut

JS  95   
WA  94   
JR  17   

2013 Egly-Ouriet Brut Grand Cru Millésimé

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WA  100   
VN  98   

2015 Pierre Peters Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil Cuvee Speciale Les Chetillons

2 available
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2015 Pol Roger Brut

Light label condition issue

WE  95   
JD  95   
WA  94   
JS  94   
WS  93   
VN  92   
JR  17   
5 available
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2016 Pol Roger Brut

Light label condition issue

WA  94   
JR  17   
10 available
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