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
Laval, Georges NV Cumieres 1er Cru Brut Nature (B22, disg. 3/25)
Due to challenging weather conditions, Vincent made almost no wine in 2021 so there are no single vineyard wines to offer and we are seeing a second release of the base 22 Cumieres, this year aged an additional year sur...
$119.99
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
Castellroig NV Penedes Corpinnat Brut Reserva
Castellroig is one of the finest values in sparkling wine and a great example of the wines of Corpinnat: it is farmed organically, harvested by hand, aged at least 18 months on the lees, and fermented with native yeasts. Marcel...
$17.99
Il Fortunato 2020 Prosecco
This is a rare item: Clean, crisp dry Prosecco, made from organic fruit, indigenous yeasts, very low SO2. This is a wine that will please everyone – your inner wine geek, and your (here please fill in the blank for...
$15.99
Can Sumoi 2024 Ancestral Sparkling Montonega (Arrives 12/9)
A collaboration between our dear friend Pepe Raventos and a fellow winemaker from Sant Sadurni D'Anoia, in Catalunya, Francesc Escala. Can Sumoi is an old farm dating back to 1645, at 600m altitude. This is a delicious and refreshing ancestral...
$26.99
Raventos I Blanc 2022 Conca del Riu Anoia de Nit Reserva Rose
Pepe Raventós stepped outside of the Cava appellation in 2012 to create the Conca del Riu Anoia designation. The de Nit rosé was the first Conca wine and continues to sate and impress us with its lively expression of calcareous...
$25.99
Rovero 2019 Brachetto d'Asti
Brachetto is usually made in the same style of Moscato d’Asti -- the fermentation is stopped when alcohol is still quite low and some of the CO2 is captured to create a slightly sparkling, sweet wine. The folks are Rovero...
$19.99
Maitre de Chai 2021 Sparkling Chenin Clarksburg
Made entirely of Chenin Blanc from the Wilson Vineyard just south of Clarksburg in the Sacramento River Delta, this is a traditional Méthode Champenoise sparkling wine that drinks clean and classic. The vineyard is known for producing grapes with laser-like...
$34.99