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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $29.94 $31.20
12 bottles: $29.64
100% Chardonnay. Didier Gimonnet’s aspiration for his entry NV is a cuvée with attack on the front, roundness in...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $32.77
12 bottles: $29.42
This offers fresh and attractive fruit aromas with a gently flinty, white-peach and white-flower fragrance on offer....
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $32.45
12 bottles: $31.80
Peach, lemon, grapefruit, biscuit and some honey on the nose. Creamy and round with a juicy, peachy and lightly...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $26.90 $28.00
12 bottles: $26.60
The NV Brut Tradition Grand Cru is fabulous. Rich, ample and creamy in the glass, the Brut Tradition captures all of...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $24.70 $26.00
Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $41.94
12 bottles: $41.10
The 2013 Brut Cuvée Empreinte is endowed with notable richness and body, yet remains super-elegant and refined....
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $38.95
12 bottles: $38.17
Disgorged in June 2019, the latest release of Geoffroy’s perennial superb NV Brut Premier Cru Rose de Saignee is...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $30.42 $33.80
12 bottles: $28.50
Bright yellow hue. Rich aromas of spiced apple and smoke. Impressively rich, concentrated, and fruity with a...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $40.94
12 bottles: $40.12
Pretty nose of pie crust, caramel, grilled pineapple, apricot, praline and treacle tart. Delicious, rich, salty and...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $34.94
Lemony richness on the nose, a struck match character that falls in with lemon vanilla note. Toffee apple allure on...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $37.99
12 bottles: $35.34
There is a hint of quinine to the attractively fresh and yeasty nose that displays plenty of citrus and green apple...
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Sparkling
375ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $121.00
The numbering indicates this is the 170th blending of this Champagne. This iteration has a fine poise—it's mature...
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Champagne Blend France 375ml

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.

Year in, year out, France enjoys its prestigious reputation as the producer of the finest wines in the world. With a wine making history which spans several thousand years and owes its expertise to the Romans, it comes as little surprise that this most highly esteemed of the Old World wine countries continues to impress and enchant both novices and experts to this day. Despite the rise in quality of wines from neighboring European countries, not to mention the New World, the French wine industry continues to boom, with up to eight billion bottles being produced in recent years. However, France prides itself on always putting quality before quantity, and the wide range in fine produce is a testament to the dedication and knowledge of the wineries across the country. Indeed, from rich and complex reds to light and aromatic white wines, French wines are as varied and interesting as they are enjoyable to drink, making this country a firm favorite for wine lovers across the globe.