Vintage Champagne Flashcards

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Brut Grand Cru ‘Annonciade’, Paul Bara

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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

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Brut Grand Cru ‘Comtesse Marie de France’, Paul Bara

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Pinot noir dominant blend
Aged in bottle for 9 years
Dosage is 8g/liter

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Brut Grand Cru ‘Grand Millésime’, Paul Bara 2014

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90% Pinot Noir, 10% Chardonnay
Dosage 8g/liter

Beautiful texture, subtle spices, terrific balance

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Brut Reserve, Bereche &fils 2019

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  • 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.
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Brut Blanc de Blancs ‘Cuvee Louis’ Billecart-Salmon

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100% Chardonnay grands crus of Côtes des Blancs:
Aged on lees for 11 years
Pure + Intense
Creamy palate balanced by acidity

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Brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru ‘Clos St Hilaire’, Billecart-Salmon

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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

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Brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru ‘Clos St Hilaire’, Billecart-Salmon

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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

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Brut ‘La Grande Année’, Bollinger

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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.

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Blanc de Blancs ‘HL - Le Haute Lemblé’, Cédric Bouchard - Roses de Jeanne

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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

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Blanc de Noirs ‘UR - Les Ursules’, Cédric Bouchard - Roses de Jeanne

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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.

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Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs ‘Les Rachais’, Francis Boulard

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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.

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Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs ‘Vieilles Vignes’, Francis Boulard

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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.

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Extra Brut Grand Cru ‘Vieilles Vignes’, Le Brun Servenay

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Le Brun Servenay produces crystalline and rich Champagne, with pronounced acidity and intense saltiness;

All fermentation and aging in stainless steel

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Special Club Explanation

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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

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Brut ‘Special Club’, Gaston Chiquet

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  • 62% Chardonnay & 38% Pinot Noir
  • Fresh, elegant, and floral.
  • Balanced palate with hazelnut in the long finish.
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Brut Grand Cru ‘Millésime’, Egly-Ouriet

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  • 2013 is distinguished by its harmony, finesse and completeness
  • Pear, crisp yellow apple, freshly baked bread, honey
  • full-bodied, ample and pillowy
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Extra Brut, Rene Geoffroy

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  • 70% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir
  • Ample and creamy, with an added hint of softness from vinification in oak
  • Lemon confit, white flowers, & spice
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Brut ‘Special Club’, Pierre Gimonnet & Fils

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  • 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
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Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru ‘Les Champs Saint Martin’, Hugues Godmé

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Single vineyard Champagne. 100% pinot noir. Remarkably subtle and refined expression.

Beautiful minerality, vibrant notes of red fruits.

Cuvee of intensity

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Extra Brut Grand Cru ‘Louvière’, Gonet-Medeville

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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

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Brut Blanc de Blancs ‘Blanc des Millénaires’, Charles Heidsieck

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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

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Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs ‘Les Vignes d’Autrefois’, Laherte Frères

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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

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Brut ‘Dom Perignon’, Moet & Chandon

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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.

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Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru, Pierre Moncuit

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Only made in best vintages: displays racy acidity and intensely chalky minerality.

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Brut Special Club, Moussé & Fils

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100% Meunier.

First producer to make a special club from 100% meunier

Complex, full-bodied wine.

Apricot, orange peel, almond and spice notes

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Brut Grand Cru ‘Clos des Goisses’, Philipponnat

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13.5 Hectare plot

Steep pitch, chalky soils, and uncommon warmth.

Intense minerality, ripe, vivid fruit flavors.

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Brut ‘Cristal’, Louis Roederer

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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

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Brut ‘Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill’, Pol Roger

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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

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Brut Blanc de Blancs ‘Integral’, Saint-Chamant

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Aromatic brioche with saline zesty notes.
Rich, racy, vibrant with distinct chalk, creme brulee, and nutty notes

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Brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs, Salon

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Extra Brut 1er Cru ‘Le Mesnil sur Oger - Haut Couture’, Frederic Savart

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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,

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Brut 1er Cru ‘Le Mont Benoit’, Frederic Savart

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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

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Brut 1er Cru ‘Les Noues’, Frederic Savart

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100% pinot Noir
Single Vineyard

The cuvée is aged in wood with zero dosage

Peach, red berries, medium to full bodied,

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Brut Blanc de Blancs ‘Comtes de Champagne’, Taittinger

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  • 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.
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Non Dosage ‘L’Etincelante’, Tarlant

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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.

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Brut 1er Cru ‘Grand Cellier d’Or’, Vilmart & Cie

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80 % Chardonnay and 20 % Pinot Noir

The nose is very elegant, and floral.

Candied pineapple, cardamom and hazelnut followed by mineral notes.

Complex