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Vintage

Wine

Color

Rating

2016

Champagne Monmarthe

Le Nid D'agace Extra Brut Premier Cru

Seven generations of the Monmarthes have farmed slopes in the Premier Cru village of Ludes. Taut, racy, and complex. Baked apples and pears emerge through an assertive mousse. The saline mid-palate is balanced by chalky minerals, finishing with Marcona almonds and smoky sea salt.

N/A

Champagne Victor Charlot

Instinct Premier 75/25 Brut

Intensely savory, with a briny richness balanced by honeydew melon. Expansive with a voluminous, creamy mousse. Intriguingly bright earthen notes, smoky minerals, and bracing acid tension

2017

Champagne Rémy Massin

Pinot Noir Special Club Extra Brut

Bright and attractive with white flowers, orchard fruits, and flaky French buttered pastry. Rich with a persistent mousse and layers of yellow apple, poached pear, vanilla cream, pastry crust, and a lemony finish.

2017

Champagne Rémy Massin

Pinot Blanc Special Club Extra Brut

A rare 100% Pinot Blanc from Ville-sur-Arce, farmed by Rémy Massin, a salt of the earth Récoltant Manipulant. Vivid and bright. Lemon zest, smoky minerals, and wildflowers. Voluminous with profound lemony-intensity and crisp orchard fruit. Long, concentrated finish. Ageworthy.

N/A

Champagne Rémy Massin

Blanc de Noirs Tradition Brut

Alluring flinty minerals, zesty lemon, vanilla bean, and pastry puff. A beautifully rich and creamy mousse leads to mouthwatering Red Delicious apple, plum, apricot cream, and brown baking spices. Persistent with a bracing mineral tension and cheese rind nuances on the long drawn-out finish.

2017

Champagne Rémy Massin

Millesime

Heady black truffle, wild herbs, licorice, and salty sea spray notes. A bright, assertive mousse leads to creamy waves of caramelized pears and bruised yellow apples through a salty mineral finish. 60% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir.

N/A

Champagne Monmarthe

Blanc de Noirs Les Grimpants Brut Premier Cru

Bright nectarine, pithy lime, and orange blossoms. Frothy, with saline minerals, expressive orchard fruit, pastry crust, cherry pit, and fragrant wildflowers framed by laser-like acidity. 100% Pinot Noir.

N/A

Champagne Odyssée

Blanc de Blancs Brut Grand Cru

100% Chardonnay from Avize Grand Cru. Flinty minerals, lime blossoms, and sea spray. Round, rich, and creamy with a persistent mousse. Kiwi, key lime, and candied ginger emerge with sous bois notes. Dried apricots laced with vanilla cream add intrigue.

N/A

Champagne Paul Launois

Blanc de Blancs Monochrome #5 Extra Brut Grand Cru

100% Chardonnay from a 16-acre parcel in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, adjacent to ‘Clos de Mesnil’ (a source for Krug and Salon). Zesty, energetic, leading with lemon and lime peel, dried apricots, and a beautiful earthy intensity. Voluminous with persistent bubbles, white florals, chalky minerality, and a spicy, candied ginger finish. Utterly irresistible

2014

Champagne Odyssée

Blanc de Blancs Jour 1: Le Levant Grand Cru Brut

The ‘Jour 1’ (‘Day 1’) explores Le Levant, south of Avize. 100% Chardonnay. Rich and full with a heady bouquet of jasmine, Mirabelle, and nougat. A fine, creamy mousse unspools with Granny Smith apple, flaky croissant, and salted caramel. Taut, tense, and mineral-driven.

N/A

Champagne Paul Launois

Illustration #3 Brut Nature

100% Chardonnay from Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. Half 2019 harvest, half Launois reserves. Lively and elegant. Rich lemon-pastry notes, traces of vanilla and caramel, underpinnings of savory earth and spices. Fresh, forward, and inviting with remarkable depth and a bone-dry, zesty, mineral-rich finish.

N/A

Champagne Goulin-Roulet

Cuvée d’Or Brut Premier Cru

Equal parts Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier. Round and rich with a creaminess balanced by bracing acidity. Baked apple and buttery brioche notes. Intense mineral underpinnings. Voluptuous, succulent, and beckoning.

2015

Champagne Odyssée

319' Blanc de Blancs Jour 2: Le Couchant Grand Cru Brut

Olivier Bonville of Champagne Franck Bonville (based in Avize) and stepson Ferdinand Ruelle are exploring the 319 Champagne villages. The ‘Jour 2’ (‘Day 2’) takes us to Le Couchant, north of Avize. 100% Chardonnay. Compact, mind-bogglingly complex. Exquisite fine beading is persistent. Savory, mineral-kissed, loaded with orchard fruits, mulberry, cherry, black truffle, and sous bois nuances—incredible.

2014

Champagne Paul Déthune

Cuvée A L'Ancienne Extra Brut Grand Cru

50% Pinot Noir, 50% Chardonnay from Ambonnay. A lemony-rich bouquet brings forward decadent sugar-dusted pastries, toasted almonds, and dried apricots. Impressively taut with fleshy yellow apple, ripe pear, and fine-boned acidity. A vein of chalky minerality rounds out a long finish of black truffle, smoked sea salt, and lemon zest

2018

Champagne Goulin-Roulet

Blanc de Noirs Origine Brut Premier Cru

100% Pinot Meunier. Crafted by father-daughter team Christophe Goulin and Marine from their perch in Sacy, a Premier Cru south of Reims. Alluring, exuberant, with racy elegance, poise, and a chalky mineral mid-palate. Black cherry fruit leads to a frothy mousse layered with vivid wildflowers, licorice, almonds, and white truffle.

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