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750ml
Bottle: $79.92
12 bottles: $78.32
The NV Brut Le Caractère M is 95% Chardonnay and 5% Pinot Noir based on 2013, with a perpetual reserve dating back...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $26.84
12 bottles: $26.30
The NV Brut Le Brut is another absolutely compelling wine in this range. Le Brut is 90% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot...
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Sparkling
375ml
Bottle: $40.00
12 bottles: $39.20
The NV Brut Rosé is positively stellar. The blend of 80% Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir (including 5% still Pinot)...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $49.93 $52.00
12 bottles: $49.40
The NV Brut Rosé is positively stellar. The blend of 80% Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir (including 5% still Pinot)...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $49.93 $54.00
Light, green-tinged yellow. Lively aromas of mineral-accented citrus and orchard fruits are complicated by suave...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $84.93
12 bottles: $83.23
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750ml
Bottle: $43.93
12 bottles: $41.80
The NV Cuvée Le Demi-Sec is a very pretty, attractive Champagne. Even with 32 grams of residual sugar, the Demi-Sec...
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375ml
Bottle: $28.90
12 bottles: $28.32
White cherry, almond biscotti and mandarin orange peel notes are set in this bright Champagne, framed by firm acidity...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $49.60
6 bottles: $48.80
WHITE PEACH | VIVACIOUS | WET STONE
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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $28.37
Dry and savory with a pleasant easy bubble. Aromas of white nectarine, and peach skin, sea shells, and lemon. A...
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750ml
Bottle: $32.94
12 bottles: $32.28
This elegant bottle comprises ripe lemony citrus notes with white flower, mineral and bread dough complexities,...
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Sparkling
750ml
Bottle: $45.94
Rich and mouthwatering, this feels like raw silk on the palate, offering exotic hints of toasted coconut and lime...
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Sparkling
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $77.04
The Un jour de 1911... is another 100% Bouzy Pinot Noir with an antique label design. The bright golden colored...
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750ml
Bottle: $21.37
12 bottles: $20.95
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $91.99
Aromatic, with hints of tea rose, graphite and bergamot, this creamy Champagne is svelte and well-knit, with bright...
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $107.00
While this Champagne from Le Mesnil-sur-Oger is still young, showing a crisp, bone-dry character alongside tight...
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $54.90
From the grand cru village of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, this tight, mineral-driven Champagne is bone dry. The ripe fruit...
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750ml - Case of 3
Bottle: $229.52
An expressive Champagne, with a lively, zesty bead and hints of dried herbs and flowers accenting juicy blood orange...
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750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $49.94
Pretty floral and spice notes waft through flavors of green melon and blanched almond in this well-cut Champagne....
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Champagne Blend Melon de Bourgogne Pecorino 12 Ship Free Items

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.

One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.


Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.