Vintage Champagne Flashcards
Brut Grand Cru ‘Annonciade’, Paul Bara
Average age of vines: 50 years
100% Pinot Noir
Aged in barrel for 6 months, aged in bottle for 10 years
Dosage 5 g/liter
Brut Grand Cru ‘Comtesse Marie de France’, Paul Bara
Pinot noir dominant blend
Aged in bottle for 9 years
Dosage is 8g/liter
Brut Grand Cru ‘Grand Millésime’, Paul Bara 2014
90% Pinot Noir, 10% Chardonnay
Dosage 8g/liter
Beautiful texture, subtle spices, terrific balance
Brut Reserve, Bereche &fils 2019
- Blend of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier
- Citrus oil, green apple and a touch of brioche.
- The palate is medium-bodied with a great combination of savory notes and fresh fruit with a vibrant, mineral finish.
Brut Blanc de Blancs ‘Cuvee Louis’ Billecart-Salmon
100% Chardonnay grands crus of Côtes des Blancs:
Aged on lees for 11 years
Pure + Intense
Creamy palate balanced by acidity
Brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru ‘Clos St Hilaire’, Billecart-Salmon
The one-hectare Clos Saint-Hilaire
ancestral champagne-making methods in the Clos Saint-Hilaire by using work horses.
* Dosage: 2 g/l
* 100% vinified in oak casks
* Ageing on lees: 13 years
Brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru ‘Clos St Hilaire’, Billecart-Salmon
The one-hectare Clos Saint-Hilaire
ancestral champagne-making methods in the Clos Saint-Hilaire by using work horses.
* Dosage: 2 g/l
* 100% vinified in oak casks
* Ageing on lees: 159 months
Brut ‘La Grande Année’, Bollinger
Hallmark Bollinger richness that is derived from fermentation in wood and a high percentage of Pinot Noir in the blend,
Ripe, full of apple and spice flavors.
Blanc de Blancs ‘HL - Le Haute Lemblé’, Cédric Bouchard - Roses de Jeanne
philosophy: single-vineyard, single-variety (Pinot Noir, Chardonnay or Pinot Blanc), single-vintage, zero-dosage Champagnes.
Bouchard farms organically, dramatically restricts yields
Extremely limited production.
100% Chardonnay (five different clones) from the .12 hectare
Blanc de Noirs ‘UR - Les Ursules’, Cédric Bouchard - Roses de Jeanne
philosophy: single-vineyard, single-variety (Pinot Noir, Chardonnay or Pinot Blanc), single-vintage, zero-dosage Champagnes.
Bouchard farms organically, dramatically restricts yields
100% Pinot Noir from the .9 hectare lieu-dit of Les Ursules. The first vintage bottling of this wine is available in 2014. 250-300 cases produced annually.
Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs ‘Les Rachais’, Francis Boulard
100% Chardonnay Farmed biodynamically.
The grapes are picked late with high ripeness in order to achieve balance without or with minimal dosage
It is typically the most powerful, complex and richly saline of the Boulard line-up.
Les Rachais is always a zero-dosage, single-vintage wine.
Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs ‘Vieilles Vignes’, Francis Boulard
It is made 100% from Chardonnay grapes which gives it finesse and freshness.
Nose of white flowers and citrus fruits. The champagne is supple, fine and round in the mouth.
Extra Brut Grand Cru ‘Vieilles Vignes’, Le Brun Servenay
Le Brun Servenay produces crystalline and rich Champagne, with pronounced acidity and intense saltiness;
All fermentation and aging in stainless steel
Special Club Explanation
Special Club Champagne is the highest tier of classification that grower Champagnes can achieve.These champagnes offer incredible value, considering that they are small production, single vintage and the top offering of each producer.
out of thousands of grower producers, only 30 are allowed to bottle a special club
Brut ‘Special Club’, Gaston Chiquet
- 62% Chardonnay & 38% Pinot Noir
- Fresh, elegant, and floral.
- Balanced palate with hazelnut in the long finish.
Brut Grand Cru ‘Millésime’, Egly-Ouriet
- 2013 is distinguished by its harmony, finesse and completeness
- Pear, crisp yellow apple, freshly baked bread, honey
- full-bodied, ample and pillowy
Extra Brut, Rene Geoffroy
- 70% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir
- Ample and creamy, with an added hint of softness from vinification in oak
- Lemon confit, white flowers, & spice
Brut ‘Special Club’, Pierre Gimonnet & Fils
- The estates oldest vines come from two parcels planted in 1911 and 1913 and are the foundation of Special Club
- Very complex nose of citrus blossoms, honey and brioche.
- Very long and extremely mineral finish
Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru ‘Les Champs Saint Martin’, Hugues Godmé
Single vineyard Champagne. 100% pinot noir. Remarkably subtle and refined expression.
Beautiful minerality, vibrant notes of red fruits.
Cuvee of intensity
Extra Brut Grand Cru ‘Louvière’, Gonet-Medeville
11 years lees aging.
2 g/l dosage.
Aromas of yellow apple, Pear, lemon, almond, and subtle oak.
The palate is precise and tense, with rich, savory textures.
only 60 bottles came to the US
Brut Blanc de Blancs ‘Blanc des Millénaires’, Charles Heidsieck
Rich in Texture and finely detailed. It is aged for a remarkably long time on its lees, giving it a polished finesse.
Only seven of these cuvees have been made and 2007 was the last time
Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs ‘Les Vignes d’Autrefois’, Laherte Frères
100% Meunier from vines planted between 1947 and 1964, offers plenty of depth, texture and resonance.
Orchard fruit, spice, ginger, dried fruit.
Dosage of 2-4 g/l
Brut ‘Dom Perignon’, Moet & Chandon
A typical DP blend includes slightly more chardonnay than pinot noir although the percentages can change depending on the vintage. Always made in a deliberately reductive style, avoiding oxidation at all costs. This causes the wine to develop extremely slowly, unfolding in complexity and depth over decades.
Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru, Pierre Moncuit
Only made in best vintages: displays racy acidity and intensely chalky minerality.
Brut Special Club, Moussé & Fils
100% Meunier.
First producer to make a special club from 100% meunier
Complex, full-bodied wine.
Apricot, orange peel, almond and spice notes
Brut Grand Cru ‘Clos des Goisses’, Philipponnat
13.5 Hectare plot
Steep pitch, chalky soils, and uncommon warmth.
Intense minerality, ripe, vivid fruit flavors.
Brut ‘Cristal’, Louis Roederer
60% Pinot Noir
40% Chardonnay
Only use grapes that have attained perfect maturity,
It has a silky texture and fruity aromas, complemented by a powerful mineral quality with white fruit and citrus notes
Brut ‘Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill’, Pol Roger
Made of Mostly Pinot Noir
Robust, full-bodied champagne
Aromas of lemon, orchard fruit and spring flowers, intertwined with notes of brioche
This is a particularly delicate and tense iteration of the cuvée
Brut Blanc de Blancs ‘Integral’, Saint-Chamant
Aromatic brioche with saline zesty notes.
Rich, racy, vibrant with distinct chalk, creme brulee, and nutty notes
Brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs, Salon
Extra Brut 1er Cru ‘Le Mesnil sur Oger - Haut Couture’, Frederic Savart
Comes from two classified grand cru villages
2.5g/l dosage
Aromas of citrus, peach, white flowers, and almond.
Full-bodied, rich, with a long finish,
Brut 1er Cru ‘Le Mont Benoit’, Frederic Savart
A single parcel. 95% Pinot Noir, and 5% Chardonnay. The dosage is 3g/L.
Scents of orange oil, nectarine and peach, white flowers & buttery pastry.
Medium to full-bodied, with a racy acidity
Brut 1er Cru ‘Les Noues’, Frederic Savart
100% pinot Noir
Single Vineyard
The cuvée is aged in wood with zero dosage
Peach, red berries, medium to full bodied,
Brut Blanc de Blancs ‘Comtes de Champagne’, Taittinger
- 100% Chardonnay sourced from five grand cru villages.
- 9 years on the lees, disgorged April 2021, 9 g/l dosage
- Superb bouquet revealing scents of plums, orchard fruits, brioche, and liquorice.
- Has a tauter and more fine-boned texture than usual, which is enhanced by bubbles of striking finesse and delicacy.
Non Dosage ‘L’Etincelante’, Tarlant
57% Chardonnay/29% Pinot Noir/14% Pinot Meunier. Each year the Tarlants make a single multi-parcel wine intended to encapsulate that particular vintage: the name Etincelante evokes the “glimmering” nature of the sunny 2002 harvest, “a dream harvest” per Benoìt Tarlant. From six parcels across four villages on a mix of chalk, flint and limestone soils with vines averaging 40 years old. The vines are organically farmed and harvested by hand and the clusters very slowly and gently pressed. The juice ferments spontaneously with native yeasts in Burgundy barrels; the wine does not go through malolactic fermentation. L’Etincelante was bottled in 2003,disgorged in 2018 and received zero dosage.
Brut 1er Cru ‘Grand Cellier d’Or’, Vilmart & Cie
80 % Chardonnay and 20 % Pinot Noir
The nose is very elegant, and floral.
Candied pineapple, cardamom and hazelnut followed by mineral notes.
Complex
