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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $63.50
Quite an elegant nose, displaying scents of crunchy raspberries, red cherries, brambly fruit and exotic spices on the...
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96
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94
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $33.01
12 bottles: $29.42
This offers fresh and attractive fruit aromas with a gently flinty, white-peach and white-flower fragrance on offer....
JS
91
WE
90
Rapid Ship
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $58.13
This offers fresh and attractive fruit aromas with a gently flinty, white-peach and white-flower fragrance on offer....
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91
WE
90
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $63.12
12 bottles: $61.86
Pinot Blanc tends to be the forgotten variety of Champagne. Here it shows its character, perfumed and full of white...
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WE
90
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $47.52
12 bottles: $46.57
From the village of Les Riceys in the Aube, the Fontaines specialize in Pinot Noir blends. This Champagne is made...
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92
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $89.38 $94.08
6 bottles: $88.40
Good reserve and freshness to this Champagne, which shows peonies, rose petals, bread crumbs and cinnamon and spice....
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92
WA
91
Sale
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $68.47 $76.08
6 bottles: $68.00
Based on the 2015 vintage, complemented by some 35% solera-aged reserve wines, the latest rendition of Philipponnat's...
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92
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92
Sparkling
Sale
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $59.90 $66.00
A stunningly vibrant Blanc de Blancs that could easily pass as Extra Brut. Excellent interplay of lemon freshness,...
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94
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92
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $59.95 $64.00
In keeping with Gimonnet's dry style, this is almost bone dry and as sharp as a knife. Behind the steely texture, it...
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94
JD
93
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $118.19
A youthful and very minerally Blanc de Blancs with excellent drive and purity. Lovely white flower and lemon zest...
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94
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $53.64 $59.60
The 2018 Champagne Cuvée Gastronome Brut has a bit sunnier feel, with primary fruit aromas of Williams pear, lime...
JD
93
VM
92
Sparkling
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $37.90 $42.00
A round and easy-drinking Champagne, with juicy acidity and a soft and frothy mousse layered with flavors of ripe...
WS
88
Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $99.00
6 bottles: $96.00
Moncuit’s non-vintage Cuvee Pierre Moncuit-Delos Blanc de Blancs Brut is typically a rich, powerful, crisp effort...
WA
92
WE
92
Sale
Sparkling
3.0Ltr
Bottle: $276.45 $291.00
Moncuit’s non-vintage Cuvee Pierre Moncuit-Delos Blanc de Blancs Brut is typically a rich, powerful, crisp effort...
WA
92
WE
92
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $34.93
12 bottles: $34.23
Moncuit’s non-vintage Cuvee Pierre Moncuit-Delos Blanc de Blancs Brut is typically a rich, powerful, crisp effort...
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WA
92
WE
92
Sale
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $41.90 $46.00
Moncuit’s non-vintage Cuvee Pierre Moncuit-Delos Blanc de Blancs Brut is typically a rich, powerful, crisp effort...
WA
92
WE
92
Sale
Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $46.95 $49.60
Lightly sweet and juicy, with lively acidity and a frothy bead supporting flavors of candied strawberry, spring...
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Sparkling
1.5Ltr
Bottle: $98.95
6 bottles: $96.97
Although it is labeled Extra Brut, this wine's bottle age has done wonders for the crisp intensity of a dry...
WE
93
WS
92

Champagne Blend

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.