Champagne Blend
All the hallmarks of Grand Cru are here, with brioche and flowers on the nose and an elegant palate which marries notes of lemon grass, gingerbread and honeysuckle. The wine effortlessly combines structure and finesse, and reverberates with a really authoritative Grand Cru crescendo on the finish.
Half-btl
£17.50
Half-btl 12 x 37.5cl 103cs
Bottle
£29.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 146cs
Magnum
£64.00
Magnum 3 x 150cl 121cs
D. Magnum
£156.00
D. Magnum 1 x 300cl 44cs
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Small
£18.00
Small 24 x 20cl 1cs
Bottle
£42.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 11cs
Bottle
£19.95
Katherine Dart, MW, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£20.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 10cs
A blend par excellence; Special Cuvée is the purest expression of Bollinger's house style. Its biscuity nose is endowed with hints of white fruit and the rich, full-bodied palate is perfectly balanced by fresh acidity and a soft, delicate mousse. A stylish Champagne that is ideal to drink now or in the next two or three year.
Half-btl
£25.00
Half-btl 6 x 37.5cl 17cs
Bottle
£45.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 40cs
Half-btl 6 x 37.5cl 2cs
Davy Zyw, Buyer (July 2019)
Bottle
£25.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 142cs
This is a classic apéritif Champagne. Deliciously light, crisp citrus and apple orchard flavours mingle with sundry red-berried fruit. It is beautifully plumped out in the middle, courtesy of Premier Cru Pinot Noir fruit from the evocatively named village of Dizy, ending with delicate toasty notes.
Bottle
£28.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 4cs
Fruits of the 2011 harvest, with reserve sines added from 2010, this is a most impressive effort, its lees-ageing imparting gentle biscuity notes and adding weight and structure to the first impressions, which recall English orchard fruit, yellow fruits and quince.
Bottle
£29.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 54cs
This sparkling wine has a fine mousse that enhances the toasty, almond and honey notes. The acidity is poised and provides the perfect foil to the baked apple and spice on the palate. Perfect served chilled as an apéritif, but also good with lighter starters, shellfish or poultry.
Bottle
£31.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 38cs
Davy Zyw, Buyer (summer 2019)
Bottle
£32.65
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
A blend of 30 percent Chardonnay, 40 percent Pinot Meunier and 30 percent Pinot Noir, this has nine grams per litre dosage. The nose has pure, red-berry aromatics of strawberries, raspberries and hints of pink grapefruit. The palate is vibrant with an attractive weight from the dosage.
The NV Brut Rose Premier Cru is a beautifully poised, centered wine. Predominantly Pinot Noir, the Rose impresses for its breadth and rich, voluminous personality. Hints of crushed flowers, Rose petals and sweet red berries linger on the refined, polished finish. The Rose is 40% Pinot Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, including 18% still red Pinot.
Drink: 2012-2016.
Antonio Galloni - Wine Advocate - eRobertParker.com - Nov 2012
Bottle
£33.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
Bottle
£35.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 15cs
Until 30th September this product is discounted by 20%. Price shown includes saving.*
Pol Roger is perhaps best known as Winston Churchill's favourite Champagne. The House remains family-owned and has a reputation for producing Champagnes of finesse and elegance which age very well. Pol Roger Brut Réserve, made from equal parts of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, is consistently one of the very best non-vintage cuvées on the market, largely due to the high proportion of aged reserve wines in the blend.
This has a truly wide appeal and is perfect for lovers of exuberantly styled Champagnes. Feminine and fruity in its youth, it takes on a fuller flavour with age. The added reserve wines are specially selected to achieve the requisite elegance, balance and harmony. It’s perfect for the cellar as well as current drinking, which is an excellent excuse to buy more than one case.
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Bottle
£36.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 97cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
A beautiful vivid pink with a bright red berry hue, it displays an array of wild strawberry aromas on the nose that lead to a generous, complex palate of buttered toast, ripe lemon and juicy hedgerow fruit.
Bottle
£36.50
Bottle 6 x 75cl 17cs
Bottle
£36.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
Who better than Benoît Marguet, doyen of Ambonnay, to complete our UKC Grand Cru trilogy? Sourced from the finest Grand Cru villages, this is perfectly balanced and richly structured. It is an exuberant and beautifully fragrant wine, with red berries and other summer fruits dancing harmoniously on the palate.
Bottle
£36.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 229cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Billecart-Salmon is renowned for the quality of its delicate rosé – and rightfully so. This is a delightful rosé with a charming, fruity nose and palate with hints of roasted nuts.
Half-btl
£38.00
Half-btl 12 x 37.5cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Magnum 3 x 150cl 1cs
Moët et Chandon’s Brut Impérial, the House’s non-vintage cuvée, is still the number one best-selling non-vintage Champagne. Enticing with green apple and citrus fruit notes, it has an impressive depth and elegance.
Bottle
£38.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 25cs
Davy Zyw - Wine Buyer
Bottle
£39.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 160cs
Magnum
£75.00
Magnum 3 x 150cl 5cs
Richard Hemming MW - jancisrobinson.com, 2nd Feb 2017
Bottle
£40.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 13cs
This wine is without doubt one of the very top non-vintage Champagnes. Its elegant complexities come from the barrel-ageing of a high proportion of the blend, together with at least four years' maturation in bottle before disgorging.
The quintessence of the House style, Brut Premier offers quality and glamour as well as excellent value. A structured, elegant wine, it is deliciously creamy with almond and toast characteristics alongside the complexity and roundness that are the hallmarks of this House.
Bottle
£45.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 40cs
Bottle
£45.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
A standard-bearer for the quality that England can achieve, this is a very assured wine, with a firm acidic spine, but also complexity and detail. Great focus and precision.
Bottle
£45.50
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Bottle
£49.50
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Dry, powerful and very serious indeed, this highly polished rosé combines notes of plum, patisserie, cinnamon and spice. With structure and weight and harmony of vibrant flavours right across the palate, this is a delicious accompaniment that can match a variety of dishes.
Bottle
£50.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 20cs
Magnum
£110.00
Magnum 3 x 150cl 4cs
Made from 40 percent Chardonnay and 60 percent Pinot Noir, R de Ruinart makes use of 40 percent reserve wine and is aged on its lees for three years. The wine is elegant with floral notes to the fore and hints of white peach and acacia on the palate. An excellent apéritif wine, this is a splendid introduction to the delights from this most ancient of Champagne Houses.
Bottle
£50.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 83cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer (winter 2018)
Bottle
£51.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 45cs
Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer (winter 2018)
Bottle
£55.00
Bottle
£55.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 6cs
Bottle
£55.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 7cs
Which grapes are included in the blend, and their proportion, is one of the key factors determining the style of most Champagnes. Three grapes are used - Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier.
26% of vineyards in Champagne are planted with Chardonnay and it performs best on the Côtes des Blancs and on the chalk slopes south of Epernay. It is relatively simple to grow, although it buds early and thus is susceptible to spring frosts. It produces lighter, fresher wines than those from Burgundy and gives finesse, fruit and elegance to the final blend. It is the sole grape in Blancs de Blancs, which are some of the richest long-lived Champagnes produced.
Pinot Noir accounts for nearly 40% of the plantings in Champagne and lies at the heart of most blends - it gives Champagne its body, structure, strength and grip. It is planted across Champagne and particularly so in the southern Aube district.
The final component is Pinot Meunier and this constitutes nearly 35% of the plantings. Its durability and resistance to spring frosts make the Marne Valley, a notorious frost pocket, its natural home. It ripens well in poor years and produces a soft, fruity style of wine that is ideal for blending with the more assertive flavours of Pinot Noir. Producers allege that Pinot Meunier lacks ageing potential, but this does not deter Krug from including around 15% of it in their final blends.