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R.H.Coutier Ambonnay Cuvée Tradition Grand Cru HALF NV
House Fizz!

R.H.Coutier Ambonnay Cuvée Tradition Grand Cru HALF NV

Blend | Montagne de Reims, Ambonnay

Coutier is to Ambonnay what Clouet is to Bouzy! Coutier is to Ambonnay what Clouet is to Bouzy! Two villages just around the corner from each other. Two makers dishing out some seriously tasty vino. Ambonnay is the home to so many great vineyards. Judging by the vino Coutier is playing with the best of them. Their NV along with Clouet’s would have to rate as two of the best value Champagnes at the mo.The Brut tradition is 30-40% Chardonnay 60-70% Pinot in any given release and around 40% r
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André Clouet Grande Reserve Brut HALF NV
Celebrate in Style!

André Clouet Grande Reserve Brut HALF NV

Pinot Noir | France, Bouzy

Superb expression of bubbles made from Pinot Noir! Clouet is a Pinot specialist and this is a seriously good Blanc de Noir (White of Black). Incredible fruit intensity, rich full style with plenty of personality. Heaps going on. Bubbles that you can take beyond an aperitif, it'll happily sit alongside a decent plate of nosh. Available in Magnum!
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Philipponnat Royale Reserve NV

Blend | Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Champagne

Disgorged in June 2020 with eight grams per liter dosage, the latest release of Philipponnat's NV Brut Royale Réserve is based on the 2016 vintage, with 27% reserve wines. Offering up aromas of peach, pear and plum mingled with apple blossom and sweet pastry, it's medium to full-bodied, fleshy and expressive, with a pillowy mousse and a generous core of fruit, underpinned by bright acids.William Kelly
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Balanced, flowing & long. The Ultratradition has immediate generosity yet the tension needed to give it energy. Fun wine of complexity.Fine with a floral nose and red fruit / pink lady. The Meunier shines bright at 60%, with backbone and complexity from 30% Chardonnay and 10% Pinot. 40% of the blend is reserve wines, and it certainly shows in the mid-palate weight, line, and length. A nice bit of lees contact gives it a seamless flow. Lovely mousse and mouthfeel. Delicious fizz!
Original price was: $140.Current price is: $118.
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André Clouet Vintage 2015
Celebrate in Style!
Superb expression of bubbles made from Pinot Noir! Incredible fruit intensity, rich full style with plenty of personality. Heaps going on. Bubbles that you can take beyond an aperitif, it'll happily sit alongside a decent plate of nosh. Time on lees and post disgorgement have harmonised a wine that is yet another example of quality fruit and thoughtful winemaking.This 2015 Vintage sits proud next to the divine 1911 & V6.It takes year of training and experience for a winemaker to unde
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André Clouet Dream Vintage 2016

Chardonnay | Champagne

This 2016 Dream Vintage sits proud next to the divine 1911 & V6. Made with 100% Grand Cru Chardonnay it is an enigma for a Champagne house dominated by Pinot Noir from Bouzy. As the name implies it is only made in the best years.As always, Jean François Clouet has created a complete Champagne harnessing time to yield a beautifully developed bottle of fizz adding richness and generosity to a linear, mineral backbone of Chardonnay. I get the feeling there is a lot more than meets the eye
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Champagne Benoît Marguet ‘Yuman’ Premier Cru 2020

Chardonnay | Montagne de Reims, Ambonnay

Wonderful complexity, a fine layer of perfectly balanced oxidative handling bringing mid-palate sweetness and depth to a rich long and beautifully dialed in wine. It’s clear that great care has gone into the élévage of the base wine. Flowers, earthy and savoury notes wrapping vertical fruit with just a little phenolics marrying a chalky saline acid profile.  Excellent drinking. Layered and complex with excellent detail, fine acid, long and fresh. Clever making here.Terroir 1er Cru Vil
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Shining. Excellent core of fruit. Fine acid red fruits and pith citrus. Flow and shape. Textural elements are very good. Fresh style. The dose is comforting. Beautifully balanced. Not a super oxy style. Beautifully weighted. A fuller apperitf style that brings loads of joy!The NV Brut Réserve is bright and finely sculpted right out of the glass. There's terrific purity and energy running through the Brut Réserve. Crushed red berry fruit, white pepper, crushed rocks and mint all race ou
Original price was: $180.Current price is: $148.
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Champagne Benoît Marguet Shaman Grand Cru 2020

Blend | Montagne de Reims, Ambonnay

The perfect introduction to Marguet's wines. 100% Grand Cru. Benoît's deft hand developing base wines and making wines of personality is on full display. Fully flavoured, complex, layered and delicious. This gives a glimpse of what's to come as you move through Benoît's divine collection of champagnes. The Pinot shines strong here and the wine even having a light blush to it. It opens beautifully with some time in the glass and red fruits are on full display with a little crème pâtissière b
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Agrapart 7 Crus Brut (Base 2020/19)

Chardonnay | Oiry, Champagne

Disgorged June 2023. Limited. 100% Grand Cru, with the fruit sourced only from great sites across four revered villages in the Côte des Blancs: Avize, Cramant, Oger and Oiry. Together with the terroir, vine age is a key factor in quality. The average age of the plantings is more than 50 years.This release is based on 2019 and 2018, with the reserve wine making up a remarkable 80% of the cuvée—another key to the quality. After natural fermentation, half the wine matured in large-format, n
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Agrapart 7 Crus Brut (Base 2021/20)

Chardonnay | Oiry, Champagne

Disg. March 2024. The Agrapart range begins with a non-vintage wine called 7 Crus. The name refers to the seven Côte des Blancs villages from which the wine derives. These include Avize (from younger vines aged 20 to 40 years), Cramant, Oger, Oiry, Avenay-Val-d’Or, Coligny and Vauciennes. Like all Agrapart wines, the fruit is from 100% estate-owned and farmed vineyards.7 Crus is a blend of two harvests: in this case, 60% is 2021 from 1er Cru sites; and 40% is 2020 from Grand Cru sites.
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Champagne Benoît Marguet Shaman Rosé Grand Cru 2020

Blend | Montagne de Reims, Ambonnay

Wonderful flowers, outstanding red fruits, savoury with baking spice. Orange citrus zest and oil. Seamless shape & flow. The harmony between the Chardonnay and Pinot is excellent. This is a table wine with fizz. Beautiful. Red fruit powering through as it opens. Fine tannin of presence adds textural intrigue to a long palate that delights.Vin Clairs are blended from the terroirs of Ambonnay and Bouzy. A rosé d’assemblage combining a majority of Chardonnay with Pinot Noir. The stil
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Of the Champagne Marguet villages level bottlings, the Ambonnay, is made from the domaine’s own vineyards. Consequently, this is always one of the finest of this level from Benoît.The 2018 vintage of Benoît Marguet’s villages level bottling of Ambonnay is composed from a blend of sixty-three percent pinot noir and thirty-seven percent chardonnay. It was disgorged in February of 2023 after three and a half years aging sur latte. The wine is still young, but already very easy to drin
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Very complete, excellent vertical linear flow and shape with a generosity, love the weighting and persistance, a little chalky phenolics, and perhaps just a little oak influence. Great development pre bottling with a delicacy in the lees work and a resolved comfort.
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The release of the 2015 saw the Bouzy shift from a Pinot/Chardonnay blend to a 100% Pinot. The fruit is sourced from estate owned vines.The 2015 release was one of my favourity wines from the vintage. I'm looking forward to devouring a bottle of 2018 soon!Striking peach skin color. Wonderfully effusive nose with a wide spectrum of aromas that range from nectarine to orange blossom and wild herbs. Breathtaking interplay of delicate stone fruit character. SP 97 Points
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Wonderful wine. Such incredible purity & precision! "The 2018 vintage of Benoît Marguet’s “Ambonnay” Rosé is an excellent follow-up to the dazzling 2017 version he made of this wine. The cépages for the 2018 version is eighty-two percent chardonnay and eighteen percent pinot noir. As has been the case for many vintages now, the wine is non-dosé and was aged three and a half years on its fine lees prior to disgorgement in February of 2023. The bouquet is very, very refined this year, wa
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A stunning full-flavoured Blanc de Blanc.  Exceptional depth and length with the hallmark mid-palate weight Benoît Marguet elicits from quality fruit with clever winemaking. Such is the quality of the fruit, everyone I drink a Marguet village wine with is in disbelief when they find out the wine is Zero does.100% Chardonnay from Vinegrower: Laurent Vauversin in Avize in the Grand Cru heart of the Côte des Blancs.
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“At once fragrant and flinty, this has a breathtaking vibrancy that makes you sit up and feel glad to be alive. And a large part of that energy is only released after you have swallowed this extraordinary Champagne. And yet it is also brimming with mirabelle and peach character. 100% pinot noir. From organically grown grapes. Disgorged in February 2023."SP 96 Points100% Pinot Noir from Vinegrower: Hugues Godmé. Production years: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
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Disgorged June 2023. Complantée comes from a single parcel in Avize that Agrapart co-planted (complantée) with six varieties: Pinot Noir, Meunier, Chardonnay and the heirloom Champagne varieties of Arbane, Petit Meslier and Pinot Blanc. Chardonnay accounts for one-quarter of the blend, with the remainder split equally between the other five varieties. The vines are all in the Fosse vineyard, the same site that gives us the great Vénus cuvée (the name of the specific vineyard parcel w
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Fruit from 'Les Crayères' makes its way into some of Champagnes very best wines. It's the source of Egly-Ouriets Blanc de Noir.The 2018 is 100% Pinot with just 1838 bottle produced. Historically it has been blended with a portion of Chardonnay. Like all of his wines it is has no dosage.
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Le Parc sits right on the other side of the wall of Clos du Mesnil! 100% Chardonnay from domaine vines planted in 1982. Le Parc is prime territory. The vineyard borders Krug’s uber-famous Clos d’Ambonnay and Selosse’s Le Bout du Clos. There is a thick (nearly 2 meter) clay and sandy loam layer of ‘tufa’ limestone on top of the chalky bedrock in Le Parc, which would suggest a powerful broad and round wine. Yet, Marguet’s version is sleek and saline with a strong chalk influence on the
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La Grande Ruelle Grand Cru is sourced from estate grapes planted in 1967 in the village of Ambonnay.
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The haunting flinty nose pulls you into this beautifully eccentric chardonnay that some lovers of this grape will find revolutionary. We say, vive la revolution! With aeration the citrusy aromas and energy expand. Then comes the incredibly racy palate which extends and extends in ways that seems to bend space-time with its elegance. SP 96 Points
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The lieux dit Saint Remys comes from estate vines planted in 1975 and 1992 and sits on the west side of Ambonnay near the border of Bouzy.
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Intensely smoky and flinty, also almost blindingly fresh, this is a dangerously chalky Champagne. The bergamot aroma expands dramatically as it aerates in the glass. Extremely concentrated Amalfi lemon character on the super-focused palate, building and building at the driving chalky finish that doesn't want to let go of you.  July 2023SP 98 Points
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Champagne Vouette et Sorbée Extrait 2014

Blend | France, Buxières-sur-Arce

Lovely. Complete flowing, harmonious, wonderful weight and driving length. Exceptional, seamless layers drawing you in. Full of personality with incredible energy. The purity and refinement are just superb. The Extrait draws you in!
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Just a little oxy, at a lovely level. Beautifully settled. Excellent shape layering and build of complexity with lees, patisserie and toasty hazelnut. Expressive, generous, fresh citrus and pith. Nice textural phenolics. An excellent drink. Chalky saline acid. Green leafy herb. A cracking BdB“The 2017 Extra-Brut Cramant Grand Cru is a rich, textured wine. Lemon confit, marzipan, spice and a whole range of tropical accents are dialed up in this exuberant, open-knit Champagne. This is an
Original price was: $475.Current price is: $399.
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Bérêche & Fils Grand Cru Mailly (Disg. July 2022) 2017

Pinot Noir | Montagne de Reims, Champagne

Delicious playful, tighter at the moment. 100% pinot same élévage as Cramant. Lovely flowing Sherbety fine. The core of fruit is solid. Building as it warms, beautifully weighted fruit of exceptional length. A lovely spice, vibrant red fruit. Excellent development. More to offer with time.“The 2017 Extra-Brut Blanc de Noirs Mailly Grand Cru is racy, exuberant and full of character. Intense Pinot notes scream out of the glass in this exotic yet beautifully balanced Champagne. Red berr
Original price was: $475.Current price is: $399.
$379ea in any 3+
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Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru V.P. Base 2015 NV
84 Months on Lees

Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru V.P. Base 2015 NV

Blend | Verzenay, Ambonnay

V.P. = Viellissement Prolongé = Prolonged ageing on lees! The V.P. stands for Vieillissement Prolongé (prolonged ageing), as the wine spends so long on lees, in this case 84 months. A blend of 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, the fruit comes from Ambonnay, Bouzy and Verzenay--all great Grand Cru terroirs. Vinification and élevage is in oak casks, with the dosage being a tiny 2g/l, so seriously Extra Brut.The power of the fruit, plus the extended lees ageing grants such harmony, so much
Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru V.P. Base 2016 NV
84 Months on Lees

Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru V.P. Base 2016 NV

Blend | Verzenay, Ambonnay

V.P. = Viellissement Prolongé = Prolonged ageing on lees! The V.P. stands for Vieillissement Prolongé (prolonged ageing), as the wine spends so long on lees, in this case 84 months. A blend of 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, the fruit comes from Ambonnay, Bouzy and Verzenay--all great Grand Cru terroirs. Vinification and élevage is in oak casks, with the dosage being a tiny 2g/l, so seriously Extra Brut.The power of the fruit, plus the extended lees ageing grants such harmony, so much
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One of the greatest rosé wines of Champagne and a wine of haunting finesse. The blend is 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, with 50% from the 2019 vintage and the reserve wines split between 2018 and 2017. The dosage is a negligible 1 g/L. Interestingly, this is always Egly’s most delicate wine. It’s unbelievably fine, perfumed, delicate and red-fruited; something truly special. 48 months on lees.Disgorged July 2024 
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Excellent development, the time on lees shows. Generous and developed with super zippy acid, delicious drinking now. Pinot shining with chardonnay linearity and chalkiness adding backbone. Super creamy lees action. A powerful core of fruit yet with a restraint. Chalky and saline. Layered and complex. This is very good. Gentle aldehyde offering nuttiness and intrigue.“The 2014 Extra-Brut Ay Grand Cru bristles with tension. It’s a great choice for readers who enjoy focused Champagnes.
Original price was: $544.Current price is: $461.
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A counterpoint to the Blanc d'Argile Blanc de Blanc. Fidèle demonstrates Gautherot's skills with both colours. 100% Pinot and disgorged with zero dosage, the quality of fruit laps up the acid with a lingering thirst-quenching finish. Red, sherbety fruit is complimented with a subtle savoury layer, and seamless complexing influences from the base wine's time on lees in old wood and that splash of reserve wine. A delicious drink! Disg. Dec 2021Paul Kaan, Wine Decoded Oct 2024 I tasted a
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It's like the Beatles have Got Back Together! Fruit from Laval, Leclapart & of course Marguet! Champagne Sapience, vinified totally with natural methods. The 2014 Sapience is collaboration between 3 great biodynamic Champagne growers: Benoît Marguet, Vincent Laval and David Leclapart. The concept is to craft Champagne using extreme biodynamic methods. The blend comprises Chardonnay from David Leclapart (Trépail), Pinot Meunier from Vincent Laval (Cumières) and Pinot Noir from Benoit Marguet (
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Combining richness with precision, an incredible texture & complexity make it almost impossible to describe this wine! The hallmarks of greatness. This wine truly takes me to a happy place.The first time I tasted Egly's Blanc de Noir was next to a Krug NV, a very good bottle at that, the Egly was inspirational. The élévage of this wine is simply perfect. Taking the time to mature base wines before blending and bottling makes an incredible difference to fruit of this quality, adding 70 mon
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Egly-Ouriet Grand Cru V.P. Base 2013 MAGNUM NV
120 Months on Lees
V.P. = Viellissement Prolongé = Prolonged ageing on lees! **A special Magnum release with an addition 36 month for a total of 120 months on lees prior to disgorging**The V.P. stands for Vieillissement Prolongé (prolonged ageing), as the wine spends so long on lees, in this case 84 months. A blend of 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, the fruit comes from Ambonnay, Bouzy and Verzenay--all great Grand Cru terroirs. Vinification and élevage is in oak casks, with the dosage being a tiny 1
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Egly-Ouriet Brut Grand Cru Millesime 2015

Blend | Montagne de Reims, Ambonnay

This is 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay from 40-year-old vines in Ambonnay. The Egly family select the grapes for this wine at harvest and raise the wine completely in barrel. There was only 1 g/L dosage. It is a seductive, layered, powerful expression of Ambonnay, and, as with the Blanc de Noirs, it undoubtedly represents one of Champagne’s greatest wines.2015 was a wonderful year for Egly-Ouriet, and the result is a strikingly beautiful wine with floral notes, great energy and tremendo
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Champagne Salon Cuvée ‘S’ Brut Blanc de Blanc 2013

Chardonnay | Les Mesnil sur Oger, Champagne

"The 2013 Salon is a huge wine. Dense and explosive, the 2013 possesses almost shocking textural richness for a young Salon. If offers a perfect example of the vintage in the Côtes des Blancs, a year in which ripeness and acids were both elevated. Lemon confit, marzipan, white flowers, mint and white pepper explode onto the palate. Bright saline notes pull it all back together on the finish." (03/2024)Antonio Galloni,Vinous 99 Points"The brilliant nose, at once fresh, bright and com

Champagne Salon Cuvée ‘S’ Brut Blanc de Blanc 2015

Chardonnay | Les Mesnil sur Oger, Champagne

The 2015 Salon is exquisite. Bright and focused, the 2015 captures a gorgeous stylsitic middle ground between the riper and cooler years. The flavor profile leans towards the more citrus, floral and mineral-driven end of the spectrum typical of cooler years, and yet the wine is also wonderfully open-knit and accessible, with no hard edges and the textural balance that is more common in warmer years. It’s a duality that works extremely well.There is a savory undertone typical of the year
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Champagne Salon Cuvée ‘S’ Brut Blanc de Blanc MAGNUM 2015

Chardonnay | Les Mesnil sur Oger, Champagne

The 2015 Salon is exquisite. Bright and focused, the 2015 captures a gorgeous stylsitic middle ground between the riper and cooler years. The flavor profile leans towards the more citrus, floral and mineral-driven end of the spectrum typical of cooler years, and yet the wine is also wonderfully open-knit and accessible, with no hard edges and the textural balance that is more common in warmer years. It’s a duality that works extremely well.There is a savory undertone typical of the year