New Champagnes at Chambers Street Wines!
12/17/25 -
Featuring: Vincent Bernard, Vouette & Sorbee, Legrand-Latour, Lamblot, Horiot and More!
Although I love to preach about the perfection of Champagne year round, I understand that as the season of celebration is here, it's the time for bottles of bubbles to be shared. And today we have an incredible collection of some of the newest arrivals to our shelves, almost all of which are allocated!
We are starting off with the inaugural vintage of Champagne Vincent Bernard! Marie-Noëlle Ledru created an incredible legacy in Champagne, known for making soulful, powerful wines. Even before retiring, her wines were unicorns, a truly special experience to find any bottles!
For those who have been wondering what happened with the vineyards of Marie-Noëlle Ledru, look no further. Vincent is the Grandson of Andre Beaufort and for 9 generations his family has owned and cultivated vines. He learned through a friend of his daughter that Marie-Noëlle wanted to lease her vineyards and so Vincent went to visit her. They agreed on how to farm, believing that naturally farming beautiful grapes leads to making great Champagnes. Vincent had nowhere to make wine so Marie-Noëlle decided to allow him to lease 0.4749 hectares of vines, the La Jument vineyard, and offered to guide and advise him on all aspects of winemaking at her estate. "So, I adopted her method of making Champagne. Marie-Noëlle likes simple things, and so do I: beautiful grapes to make good Champagne without artifice, but with a lot of monitoring and attention throughout the various processes. I want to emphasize how proud I am that Marie-Noëlle passed on her expertise to me, which I will, in turn, be able to pass on to my children. A wonderful legacy!"
Vincent Bernard pouring Ledru rose outside her cellar (Photo: Eva Zorad)
We were lucky enough to get a taste of Vincent's first vintage and they were truly the start (or continuation) of something very special. They had this incredible balance of power and elegance, with amazing depth. They are the type of Champagnes that make you stop and think. We are incredibly proud to be able to introduce this special project to you today, as you can imagine the wines are insanely limited so we have put a 2 bottle purchasing limit on his wines today in hopes that as many people can have access to these special wines as possible.
Fossils at Legrand-Latour (Photo: Polaner Selections)
I stumbled upon a bottle of Legrand-Latour Eocene in a shop in Reims after an employee from Laherte Freres said this was one of his current favorite Champagnes. My husband and I drank it over the span of a day in and out of our hotel, and were blown away by it's incredibly mineral and savory style! The type of wine you just wanted to keep coming back to. We came home to find out is now being imported to the U.S. and were excited to continue exploring this domaine! Legrand-Latour is a very geologically focused estate that in 2004 began digging to search for fossilized shells. They ended up doing an excavation of a mile long, 300 meter deep hand carved cave to help document and preserve sea creatures from 45 million years ago, this is now open as a museum.
From a winemaking standpoint the family had always sold to the co-op until their son returned to the vineyards, and began changing the conventional farming practices to organic, and after 5 years in 2017 he decided to quit the co-op and bottle his own wines. The names of each wine come from the different geological strata since he believes that geology plays the biggest role in determining the wines identity. Today we have three different cuvees to offer from them, Eocene, Ypresien, and Lutetien.
We showcased the magic that is the Champagnes of Alexandre Lamblot back in the summer, but we have the arrival of his cuvee Synergie! It is made from 62% Meunier, 20% Chardonnay and 18% Pinot Noir all grown in sandy, clay-limestone soils. From the 2020 vintage and aged for 9 months in barrel followed by 30 months sur lattes. Everything is hand riddled, unfined, unfiltered, and disgorged with zero dosage, this is a Champagne of purity and precision with a very delicate mousse. Just 5,000 bottles produced (and at a very approachable price for Lamblot!) Additionally we have a few magnums of Mouvance available, just in time for New Years!
Also new to the shelves, is the complete lineup from Olivier Horiot, Fidele and Blanc d'Argille from Vouette & Sorbée, Egly-Ouriet, Thomas de Marne, and special gift boxes of 2019 Laherte Freres Empreintes! We snuck in a few additional allocated wines in the collection here so enjoy searching through this incredibly unique and celebratory collection of Champagnes.
-Hanna Krilov Cohen
