Vintage Champagne

70% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay. 16% of the wine goes through malolactic fermentation with 8% being vinified in oak casks. Bottle-aged for 4 years before being left to rest for a further 6 months...(read more)

A relatively low dosage vintage Blanc de Blancs Champagne from Grand Cru vineyards in the Cote des Blancs, aged for 4 years before degorgement. Clean, brisk Blanc de Blancs structure with fresh a...(read more)

Gosset's 2006 Grand Millésime Brut is still on the market, and the wine is very open and expressive by the house's standards, bursting from the glass with notes of crisp but sun-kissed yellow orc...(read more)

Legras' top vintage cuvée is the sublime Saint Vincent from Grand Cru vineyards in Chouilly. Crunchingly dry with brisk Blanc de Blancs acidity, but overlayed with rich brioche, yeast, and baked...(read more)

60% Le Mesnil, 40% Ambonnay. Suberb rich nose. Palate is bright, but a waxier, more appley sort of flavour profile than the 2009 rosé, with lots and lots of autolytic briochy flavours - just gorgeous. &quo...(read more)

After seven years aging in the chalk cellars of Pol Roger , this has turned an elegant pale gold with fine, persistent bubbles. You sense the warmth of the vintage on the nose where white stone fruit intermingl...(read more)

12 years 'sur lattes' for this cuvée. Very fine and elegant nose is followed by richness in the mouth - lemon and lemon zest - which seem to to be the signature flavours from le Mesnil. Only 2.5g...(read more)

Taittinger's 2007 Comtes de Champagne will be nearly impossible to resist upon release. Soaring aromatics, mid-weight structure and soft contours give the 2007 its alluring personality. Lemon oil...(read more)

In a recent tasting of the very best Champagnes by James Suckling, this exquisite fizz came second - with an equal score to Vintage Krug 2000 and ahead of all the other big names, Dom Perignon, C...(read more)

The 2008 Dom Pérignon is fabulous, but quite remarkably, it was even more open when I tasted it a year ago. Bright, focused and crystalline in its precision, the 2008 is going to need a number of...(read more)

We were very privileged to be the first people to taste the new R.D. release outside Bollinger. It made for a very happy Tuesday morning! The nose was strikingly crisp with plenty of orange peel...(read more)

From a fresh vintage and internally nicknamed "Luminous Freshness," Krug's light golden colored 2004 Brut is brighter on the nose than the 2002 that I tasted next to it. There are fresh, candied...(read more)