Wine Spectator: Rich, with hints of whole grain toast, date and honey lacing flavors of black currant, apple, candied orange zest and beeswax, all set on the fine, lightly creamy texture. Mou...

About this Wine: The goal is to produce champagne, cru by cru, respecting the terroir. Xavier separates each parcel, and all their Grand Crus are vinified in wood as well as 1/3 of their 1er C...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light yellow. A complex bouquet displays singed orange, fresh and dried apricot, dried flowers and toffee, with a whisper of smoky lees. Fat and silky but fairly dry, with h...

Wine & Spirits: A pale chardonnay with fresh green highlights of kiwi and apple, this is juicy in the middle, crisply delineated in the end. Zesty, mineral-tinged acidity in the finish keeps ...

Wine Spectator: This taut, fresh Champagne delivers a base note of apple tarte Tatin and accents of kumquat and almond skin. Linear, with a hint of mineral on the finish. Drink now through 20...

Wine Spectator: A hint of yeasty bread dough accents flavors of pippin apple, smoke, Meyer lemon and stony mineral. Firm and focused, with a raw almond note on the moderate finish. Drink now ...

Wine Enthusiast: Lanson's Black Label is one of the most familiar Champagne brands, well known for its rich but dry style. It needs some bottle age-as has happened with this bottling-to soften...

Wine Spectator: Toast and dried fruit notes mix in this very harmonious dry Champagne, which is full of flavor-dried apricot, candied orange peel, nut and smoke-but still elegant and light-we...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright yellow-gold. Smoky, deeply pitched aromas of poached pear, chamomile, honey and truffle, with spice and mineral notes gaining strength in the glass. Offers an array o...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The NV Brut Tradition Grand Cru possesses gorgeous warmth and openness in a radiant, broad-shouldered style that is impossible to resist. Deep and textured through to the fini...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The NV Extra-Brut Grand Cru V.P. Viellissement Prolonge is Pinot Noir from Grand Cru vineyards in Bouzy, Ambonnay and Verzenay that spent 70 months on its lees. This is the mo...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The NV Brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru, from the Les Crayeres lieu-dit in Ambonnay, is one of Champagne's great wines when it is on, as it is here. Given the relatively recent d...

Wine Spectator: Crisp and minerally, with citrus-like acidity and flavors of Key lime pie, verbena, fresh-cut quince and fresh ginger. Creamy finish. Drink now through 2015. -AN

Wine Spectator: With a steely backbone of acidity, this offers lightly grained texture and hints of peach, anise, fresh flowers, green apple and fresh ginger. Tangy, lip-smacking finish.

Wine Spectator: Firm, chalky acidity structures this on the austere side of the spectrum, but the wine finds balance with green apple, pear and lemon cake flavors. Finely textured, with a min...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The NV (2010) Extra Brut Les Murgiers is mind-blowingly beautiful even though it has only recently been disgorged. Green pears, white apples flower and crushed rocks are some ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light yellow-gold. An intensely perfumed bouquet displays scents of yellow plum, nectarine and redcurrant, with suave spice cake and floral notes and slow-building minerality...