Champagne & Sparkling Wines for New Year's Eve!
Champagne & Sparkling Wines for New Year's Eve!
Tarlant NV Brut Zero [Base 2016]
32% Pinot Noir/32% Chardonnay/32% Pinot Meunier/4% Petit Meslier + Arbanne + Pinot Blanc. This cuvée makes up 70-90% of Tarlant's production and "is my daily obsession", says Benoît Tarlant. Zero reflects the Tarlant emphasis on unadorned terroir, with no selected...
$71.99
Tarlant NV Brut Zero Rosé (b 2017)
(Arrives 12/23) 50% Chardonnay/44% Pinot Noir/6% Pinot Meunier from organically farmed, hand-harvested estate vines. The vines are grown across 63 parcels in 4 villages near Oeuilly in the Vallée de la Marne and average around 40 years old. The parcels...
$78.99
Tarlant 2002 Brut Zero "L'Etincelante"
(Arrives 12/23) 57% Chardonnay/29% Pinot Noir/14% Pinot Meunier. Most vintages, the Tarlants make a unique, usually multi-parcel wine as a snapshot of that particular vintage's personality. The name "Etincelante" evokes the “shimmering” nature of the sunny 2002 harvest, "a dream...
$229.99
Mouzon Leroux NV l'Atavique Tradition Extra Brut (Base '20)
A blend of 65% Pinot Noir and 35% Chardonnay in 3 different vineyards in different sections of Verzy Grand Cru. Soils here are silex with chalk and clay. 55% of the wine is the base vintage of 2020 with the...
$59.99
Ponson NV Champagne Premier Cru Brut
Maxime Ponson, of Champagne Ponson, is a strong proponent of organic viticulture in Champagne, making delightful wines in area around Montagne de Reims. The straightforward and remarkably well-valued "Premier Cru" is a blend of Pinot Meunier, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir...
$47.99
Huré Frères NV Champagne Brut Reserve L'Invitation
20% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir, 40% Meunier. The nose offers aromas of baked apple, brioche, wild strawberry, orange oil, white flowers, and ginger. On the broad, medium-bodied palate there is a fine tension between the ripe red fruit, citrus peel,...
$62.99
Gamet NV Rive Driote Blanc de Noirs Brut
85% Pinot Meunier with 15% Pinot Noir, the base vintage is 2021 (60%) with the remainder being a blend of reserve wines dating back to 2014. The vines are 40-50 years old on sand with clay and limestone soil. The...
$49.99
Gamet NV Rose Brut
85% Pinot Meunier with 15% Pinot Noir, 8% of this is a vin rouge, the base vintage is 2021 (70%) with the remainder being a blend of reserve wines dating back to 2014. Soils here are sand with clay and...
$52.99
Rafflin, Herve NV 1er Cru Les Monthouzons NM Blanc de Meunier Extra Brut
100% Pinot Meunier from a 0.95 hectare parcelle Les Monthouzons located in Taissy. The vines are between 19-23 years old with shallow Limon Clacareous soil. It is aged for 6 months in barrel before 30 months in bottle on the...
$46.99
Rafflin, Herve NV La Nature'L 1er Cru Extra Brut
A mix of 38% Pinot Noir, 36% Chardonnay, and 26% Pinot Meunier from 1er Cru Chigny les Roses. Aged in stainless steel tank for 8 months before 24 month en tirage. SO2 is only added at harvest and before bottling.
$42.99
Beaufort, André NV Champagne Polisy Brut Nature (B22)
The André Beaufort NV Champagne Polisy Brut Nature is 75% Pinot Noir from the 2022 vintage and 25% Chardonnay from 2018 - "it's showing well now" says Réol Beaufort "as the Chardonnay rounds out the young Pinot Noir." Organic farming...
$54.99
Beaufort, Andre 2002 Champagne Polisy Brut Nature
A sensational mature Champagne from André Beaufort from the superb 2002 vintage - the estate converted to organic agriculture in the early 70's and makes brilliant, full-bodied Champagnes that are among the most "vinous" being made today. (note from 2022...
$129.99
$114.99
Beaufort, André 2008 Polisy Reserve Brut Nature
The vintage Champagnes of Andre Beaufort are complex, full-bodied wines, fermented with wild yeasts and bottled after very long sur-lie aging. The 2008 Brut Nature Reserve was disgorged in September 2024 after 15 years on the lees. (2022 disgorgement: The...
$99.99
Beaufort, André 2009 Champagne Ambonnay Grand Cru Brut
This 2009 is 100% Ambonnay Grand Cru fruit and this really comes across, in the form of stately minerality and structure. It shines a vibrant golden yellow in the glass and sports a finely-beaded mousse. Aromas of spearmint, peppermint, lillies,...
$114.99
Beaufort, André 2014 Polisy Blanc de Blanc Brut Nature
The 2014 Blanc de Blanc was disgorged in January 2024 - it's a stunning Blanc de Blancs from the Aube, showcasing all of the minerality inherent in it's Kimmeridgian soils. The cooler 2014 vintage, like the 2013, imbues it with...
$84.99
Beaufort, André 2016 Brut Reserve Nature (1er Cru Hautvillers) (Arrives 9/3)
A unique and beautiful wine, meant for the cellar as John McIlwain said back in 2021: "This extraordinary special cuvee of 2016 “Reserve” Brut is from Beaufort vines in the 1er Cru village of Hautvillers located in La Grande Vallée...
$129.99
Laval, Georges 2019 Champagne Cumieres 1er Cru Blanc de Noirs Les Hautes Chevres
Vincent Laval's Les Hauts Chèvres Blanc de Noirs bottling comes from a parcel on the western portion of the slope of Cumières. Formerly comprised of Pinot Noir from very old vines (which have since been replanted), the wine is now...
$224.99
Ruppert-Leroy NV Champagne Brut Nature 'Puzzle'
Ruppert-Leroy is an estate that sold to the local cooperative from the 1980s until 2009, when Emmanuel and Bénédicte first began to make single vineyard, single terroir, single vintage wines, always bottled Brut Nature (no dosage). Many years later, the...
$99.99
Ruppert-Leroy NV Champagne Brut Nature 11,12,13...
Emmanuel Leroy and Bénédicte Ruppert are guiding a second generation field of dreams estate in the southern Champagne village of Essoyes, seven kilometers from the Burgundian border. Ruppert-Leroy is an estate that sold to the local cooperative from the 1980s...
$99.99