Deluxe champagnes

Legendary champagne from Moet and Chandon.

This is a simply magnificent dining wine—a gourmet treat.

The delicate golden colour of the Grande Année is a sign of the wine’s maturity, matched on the nose by a wonderful aromatic depth of fruity, spicy and floral notes suggestive of peach, plum and citrus peel shaped by fresh, mineral focus.

In the mouth, a creamy effervescence is supported by smooth, fresh flavours of fruit interwoven with all the complementary notes of the aromatic range, before a cleansing, gently saline finish.

The Grande Année bottling is the summation of the traditional skills and craftsmanship of the Bollinger house. It is a wine that is vinified in small aged oak barrels in the traditional style to give aromas of great finesse and subtlety. When the long lees ageing is complete, every bottle of this vintage selection is riddled and disgorged by hand in time-honoured fashion.

Antonio Galloni of the Wine Advocate first tweeted about Andre Clouet Cuvee Un Jour de 1911, propelling this low-key Champagne House into the spotlight - 'André Clouet 1911 ... absolutely majestic...like silk on the palate!'
A tiny 1,911 bottles of this multi-vintage Champagne, crafted from only the very top years, are produced annually, making a rare and very impressive gift.

Creamy and yeasty with ethereal scents of lime blossom, rose petal and jasmine - divine!

Clouet is made by a father-and-son team whose wine is cellared beneath their pretty, vine-covered, 17th century house in the Grand Cru village of Bouzy, in the Montagne de Reims. Jean-François Clouet, winemaker, is known for his fanatical devotion to quality. Young and full of ideas, he aspires to Bollinger in style and quality.
Thanks to an ancestral land grant from Napoleon, Jean-Francois has the privilege of working with some of the best-situated vines in the Bouzy sub-region.

As you taste it, notes of toasted bread, hazelnut, nougat, barley sugar and jellied fruits may take you by surprise. You may even taste hints of apples still on the tree, flowers in bloom, ripe and dried fruit, almonds, marzipan, gingerbread, sweet spices and even brioche and honey.

You may also notice its exceptional freshness in the mouth, with rich and tangy flavours of lemon and grapefruit enhanced by the subtlety of its fine and elegant bubbles. Krug Grande Cuvée can age beautifully.

Over twenty years are needed to craft each bottle of Krug Grande Cuvée. Blending so many vintages gives Krug Grande Cuvée its unique fullness of flavours and aromas, impossible to express with the wines of just a single year.

It is the first prestige cuvée re-created each year and thus beyond the very notion of vintage.

Together with Krug’s other cuvées, it has made Krug the world’s best-rated Champagne for years.

Like all Krug champagnes, it can age beautifully. The ID code, a six- digit number located on the upper left hand side of the back label, can be used as a reference to collect bottles and enjoy them later.

Every glass of Krug Grande Cuvée is the fruit of many years of craft and patience. The art of blending many years gives Krug Grande Cuvée its unique plethora of flavours and aromas, incredible generosity and an absolute elegance that would be impossible to express with the wines of a single year.
Every year, we recreate from scratch the multitude of facets that form perfect harmony on the palate, no flavour dominating or competing with another; this is the main characteristic of Krug Grande Cuvée. Its myriad aromas make Krug Grande Cuvée the richest of them all. Its true generosity means that everyone can find something in it that stirs their emotions.

Eric Lebel, Chef de Caves, Krug

"Rich, with smoky hints of roasted almond and toasted brioche, this crystalline Champagne offers a finely detailed mousse that carries the firm, citrusy acidity and flavors of patisserie apple, spun honey and tangy black cherry, accented by subtle, aromatic hints of ground cumin and clove, bergamot and chamomile."

Wine Spectator 2015 Note: 95/100

Ruinart's Blanc de Blancs Brut is a chance to enjoy nearly three hundred years' experience in champagne.

The recipe contains a high proportion of premier cru grapes from the Côte des Blancs and Montagne de Reims vineyards for elegance in the aromas, with extra body from Sézannais wines and dancing freshness given by grapes from the north of the Vesle valley.

Those premier cru grapes yield concentrated fresh fruit aromas of sun-warmed citrus that broaden into a whole palette of appeals to the senses, with delicate floral scents and richer suggestions of juicy nectarines and pineapple.

The flavours are subtle suggestions of fresh fruit, vibrant but shapely, and all elegance. Of course there are streams of fine bubbles, showing countless changing shades of gold in the glass and persisting as you sip.

A blanc de blancs is the perfect aperitif or toasting wine, but if you are careful about your food matching you can show it to advantage alongside fine fresh fish or seafood, simply prepared.

Bollinger R(ecently) D(isgorged) is an 'extra brut' champagne, with a very low dosage and a consequent purity and dryness that shows off the exceptional quality of the vintage fruit.

The wine is aged for four times longer than the appellation requires, giving an extraordinary richness and depth to the original fruit flavours, transformed by time and oak ageing into luscious, sweetly spicy harmonies of preserved fruit and golden, concentrated fullness.

Bollinger recommend that this special cuvée be served at an initial temperature as low as 8°C so that all its modulations and subtleties can be appreciated as it warms to the temperature of the room.

The R.D. style recalls the custom among champagne houses of keeping old wines for their own consumption, disgorging them shortly before tasting to yield the perfect combination of absolute freshness with the rich aromatics of a mature wine.