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Bottle: $70.79
Collected, balanced and poised, this Champagne combines richness with freshness; fruit with minerality. It is still a...
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The iconic Belle Epoque bottle reveals a well-structured, taut wine. With Chardonnay very much in evidence in the...
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Bottle: $100.28
Very racy and refined with bright acidity and a blueberry and dark-chocolate character. Love the interplay of acidity...
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Impressive richness and power with sous-bois and woody aromas, as well as light honey, dried berries and yellow...
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Bottle: $634.89
This single vineyard, one of the steepest in Champagne, produces fabulous wines. Richness restrained by the...
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This single vineyard, one of the steepest in Champagne, produces fabulous wines. Richness restrained by the...
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The 2012 Champagne Clos de Goisses Juste Extra Brut Rosé has 8-10% percent of still wine added to the base. The...
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A mouthwatering Champagne, with a fine mousse, this offers juicy flavors of plum, candied grapefruit zest, ground...
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Pale salmon-copper color with aromas of raspberries, fresh and dried cherries, rose-water, grapefruit, salted...
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Bottle: $130.95
Produced entirely form Merlot grapes in a Vineyard located on the higher part of the Ruffoli hill in the heart of...
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Such wonderful transparency and clarity in its nature with lightly cooked apples and chalk. Some white pepper. Full...
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Bottle: $230.28
The great 2012 vintage shows well in this rich, full Champagne. Dominated as usual by Pinot Noir, the wine is...
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Bottle: $196.09
This rich, full-bodied Champagne is a classic from this producer. Its richness is emphasized by ripe Pinot Noir that...
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Bottle: $2949.95
As always, this exceptional Champagne, only released in top vintages, shows its rare qualities. Its poise between...
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Champagne Blend Merlot Mencia 2012

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.

With its dark blue colored fruits and high juice content, Merlot varietal grapes have long been a favorite of wine producers around the globe, with it being found in vineyards across Europe, the Americas and elsewhere in the New World. One of the distinguishing features of Merlot grapes is the fact that they have a relatively low tannin content and an exceptionally soft and fleshy character, meaning they are capable of producing incredibly rounded and mellow wines. This mellowness is balanced with plenty of flavor, however, and has made Merlot grapes the varietal of choice for softening other, more astringent and tannin-heavy wines, often resulting in truly exceptional produce. Merlot is regarded as one of the key 'Bordeaux' varietals for precisely this reason; when combined with the drier Cabernet Sauvignon, it is capable of blending beautifully to produce some of the finest wines available in the world.