Seven percent red wine added to the blend to make the NV Champagne Brut Rosé, which is based on the 2020 harvest and is 45% Chardonnay, 25% Meunier, and the rest Pinot Noir, with about 45% reserve wine. A classic pink...

Based on the 2019 vintage and enriched by 50% reserve wines—stored in steel tanks and incorporating some 100 individual wines, averaging a decade in age—Charles Heidsieck’s NV Brut Réserve opens with aromas of candied...

With the base of 2019, the NV Champagne Grande Reserve is a bright pale straw color and is forward and powerful on the nose, with slightly tarry aromas that benefit from some air on opening. It offers a lightly savory...

(96+ points) The finest rendition since 2013, the 2016 Cristal has turned out beautifully. A vintage that Lecaillon describes as “difficult in the vineyards but beautiful in the cellar,” it had suffered slightly in...

A toasty version, animated by racy acidity, with fragrant accents of lime blossoms, grilled macadamia nut and vanilla enmeshed with flavors of lemon meringue pie, wild cherry, tangerine peel, chopped hazelnut and fleur de...

With equal parts of the 2022 base vintage and reserve wines (from 2021 and 2020), the latest release of Vilmart & Cie’s NV Grande Réserve was disgorged in July 2024 with a dosage of six grams per liter. Heavily based on...

Salted butter, fresh pastries and lemons. Some oyster shell, too. It’s very fresh, creamy and elegant with very fine bubbles and a long, saline and delicious finish. Blend of chardonnay, pinot noir and meunier. Drink or hold.

The 2017 Brut Blanc de Noirs Empreinte is a super-classy wine. Pear, crushed flowers, brioche, cinnamon and a kiss of French oak infuse the 2017 with notable depth. Although not the most complex wine in this range...

The Henriot Millésime 2014 is a 50% Pinot Noir and 50% Chardonnay blend that includes six distinct Chardonnay cru in the blend. It floats out of the glass with very pretty, ripe citrus notes accented by lemon blossom and...

(91+ points) Produced on the foundation of the 2020 harvest and complemented by 30% reserve wines, Charles Heidsieck’s NV Blanc de Blancs (laid in chalk cellars in 2021) was disgorged at the end of 2023 with a dosage of...

A silver straw color, the NV Champagne Brut is a base of 2019, the majority (60%) Chardonnay along with 35% Pinot Noir and a small amount of Meunier. Forward in the glass, it has a lovely intensity on opening, with...

Elegant, vibrant aromas of strawberries, confit lemon, dried flowers and blood orange preface the 2014 Brut Rosé Cuvée Rare, a medium to full-bodied, enrobing and elegantly vinous Champagne with integrated acidity, fine...

This has a pale apricot color and aromas of baked apple, spiced pear, honey and croissant. It’s creamy and flavorful, with soft and rounded bubbles and a lightly spicy finish. Drink now.

From the 2019 vintage and disgorged in September 2024 with a dosage of four grams per liter, the latest rendition of Geoffroy’s NV Rosé de Saignée Cumières Premier Cru—as always—derives exclusively from Cumières. The only...

Aromas of wild berries, brioche, grapefruit, salted nuts and hints of ginger from this delightfully complex Champagne. It’s dry and well structured on the palate, with bright acidity and tight bubbles. Spicy at the end...

Aged in one- to three-year-old 228-liter barrels from Tonnellerie Rousseau, Vilmart’s 2016 Emotion is a blend of 40% Pinot Noir (including 15% red wine) from Villers-Allerand and 60% Chardonnay from Rilly-la-Montagne...

A considerable increase in intensity and tension compared to Latitude, Larmandier's excellent NV Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Longitude is crafted from a 2021 vintage base (60%) and combined with a perpetual reserve...

A minerally version, with generous smoke and chalk notes that transition to reveal black plum, whole-grain toast and Meyer lemon peel flavors. Vivacious, with both bright, well-knit acidity and a lively bead. Pinot Noir...

A fantastic and detailed offering from A. Margaine, the NV Champagne Cuvée Le Caractère M comes from a perpetual reserve which began in 2002, with this edition having the youngest wine from 2016, Primarily Chardonnay with...

Bright silver/straw-colored and coming from 50-year-old vines, the NV Champagne 1er Cru Selection Brut is made from 70% Pinot Noir and the rest Chardonnay, with 60% from the 2020 vintage and reserve wine from 2019 and...

Pale pink salmon-colored, the NV Champagne 1er Cru Brut Rosé is equal parts Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and has 6% vin rouge in the blend. It reveals notes of fresh strawberries, peaches, fresh pastry dough, and a fluffy...

I have tasted the 2015 Cristal three times so far. Those tastings paint a portrait of a complex Champagne that is still finding its center. Tasted at the maison, the 2015 is rich, dense and explosive, with tremendous...

As always, a very correct Champagne. It has nice length and valid reasons for being drunk whenever one feels the inclination to do so. There is depth albeit limited in scope. Racy and crisp. Nothing jarring but also...

(95+ points) More complex and spicier than its 2016 counterpart, the 2018 Extra-Brut Grand Cru Rive Gauche – Rive Droite offers up aromas of spices, toast, baked bread, white flowers and spring flowers. Medium to...

The 2009 Dom Ruinart Rosé is a joyous, radiant Rosé, a Champagne that very much captures the personality of its vintage. Rich, ample and layered, the 2009 captivates all the senses with its heady, Pinot-driven...

A refreshing, well-balanced Champagne, with a refined mousse. Offers flavors of white cherry, poached pear and brioche, showing accents of lemon curd and candied ginger underscored by minerally hints of oyster shell and...

Firm and focused, with a streak of salinity and racy acidity cutting a swathe through rich notes of roasted almond and toasted brioche. Offers flavors of baked apricot and cherry fruit, blood orange peel and pickled...

An elegant blanc de blancs, showing a finely detailed mousse and lithe, lively acidity. Apple blossom, chalky mineral and oyster shell notes are enticing aromatics lacing flavors of beeswax, poached quince and pear, and...

The 2012 Brut Rosé Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon is a very sexy Champagne, but it is also quite reserved, especially within the context of the year. Crushed rose petal, kirsch, white pepper, slate and mint are all beautifully...