Champagne

Frost took about a tenth of the vineyard in 1985, yet the house's own vintage library carries the year in four forms, up to Plénitude 3 Rosé. The h...

Vincent Chaperon calls 2015 "appeasing and intense": a drought year picked from 7 September, sorted plot by plot, and blended 51% Pinot Noir to 49%...

Salon calls 1997 'a sensuality of silk', the 36th vintage from a house that released only 37 in the entire twentieth century. The house's own recor...

Krug Grand Cuvée is one of the flagship products of the Krug Champagne house, a prestigious name in the world of fine wines and champagnes. The Kr...

Made only every three years and sized to Françoise Martinot's own taste, FF.13 is a 2013 Les Copies Pinot Noir disgorged in April 2022 with nothing...

Say what you do, do what you say, runs the Dufour house motto; B.19 obliges: one village, one grape, one harvest, zero dosage, more than five years...

Champagne's 2020 picking began on 17 August, the earliest on record; Charles Dufour cropped his mother's Chervey Pinot Noir at 35 hl/ha and raised ...

The importer's spec line reads more than ten years in bottle and zero dosage: a 2011-base rosé Charles Dufour held far longer than the first releas...

Lot L.21.82 says it plainly: the 2021 harvest poured into a reserve the Dufour family has kept topped up since 1982, then bottled still, without bu...

A 0.05-hectare plot, forty-year-old vines and a sandstone amphora: in Pinot Noir country, Élise Dechannes makes a Chardonnay her US importer could ...

Absolue Terre means absolute clay: the same 0.4-hectare Pinot Noir parcel as Absolue Grès, fermented in terracotta instead of sandstone, and the gr...

One 228-litre barrel and 262 bottles a year: Liberté is the smallest sparkling cuvée in the Élise Dechannes cellar, and its name means exactly what...

Élise Dechannes is a boutique grower-producer based in Les Riceys, in the southern Côte des Bar of Champagne. Farming her old family vines organica...

Dechannes cut her family's 75,000-bottle output to 15,000; Essentielle, vinified plainly in steel, is the cuvée meant to show Les Riceys Pinot Noir...

Each year only about a fifth of the tank is bottled, and the newest harvest ends up as roughly five per cent of what is in the glass. Substance is ...