Brut Champagne
Brut denotes a dry style of Champagne (less than 15 grams per litre). Most Champagne is non-vintage, produced from a blend from different years. The non-vintage blend is always based predominately on wines made from the current harvest, enriched with aged wines from earlier harvests, which impart an additional level of complexity to the end wine.
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Brut denotes a dry style of Champagne (less than 15 grams per litre). Most Champagne is non-vintage, produced from a blend from different years. The non-vintage blend is always based predominately on wines made from the current harvest, enriched with aged wines (their proportion and age varies by brand) from earlier harvests, which impart an additional level of complexity to the end wine. Champagnes from a single vintage are labelled with the year reference and with the description Millésimé.
Non-vintage Champagnes can improve with short-term ageing (typically two to three years), while vintages can develop over much longer periods (five to 30 years). The most exquisite and often top-priced expression of a house’s style is referred to as Prestige Cuvée. Famous examples include Louis Roederer's Cristal, Moët & Chandon's Dom Pérignon, and Pol Roger's Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill.
Recommended Producers : Krug, Billecart Salmon, Pol Roger, Bollinger, Salon, Gosset, Pierre Péters, Ruinart
Prices:
Bottle
£31.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
The reputation of Bouzy resides in the quality and style of its Pinot Noirs, generally ripe, rich and very expressive. All three of these adjectives apply to this, the signature wine from Champagne Bara: a charming, forward Champagne, with a nose evocative of nectarine, plum and spice, then delicious flavours in the mouth which combine ripe fruity notes, a very fine mousse and an elegant, finely sculpted finish.
Juhlin's Champagne Guide, 2008
Bottle
£32.00
With only four grams of residual sugar but appropriately enough, four years of lees’ ageing, this superb new cuvée takes Legras to new heights of excellence. Julien Barbier, the winemaker, extols its purity, power and its precision on the mid-palate, sentiments with which we fully concur.
Bottle
£38.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 7cs
Billecart-Salmon is one of the few remaining Champagne houses to be owned by the original family and was established in 1818 by Nicolas-François Billecart. Most of Billecart-Salmon's fruit comes from a small vineyard holding, though this is supplemented with grapes bought in from the Marne Valley and the Montagne de Reims. Meticulous production techniques, from the use of their own cultured yeast to its long, slow, cool fermentation, ensure that the family has 100 percent control of production.
This is without doubt one of the finest, yet least known, Grande Marque Champagnes, made with mainly Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier. This Champagne is lively, elegantly textured and fresh, with a very long finish.
Bottle
£39.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 5cs
De Sousa is based in the Grand Cru village of Avize in the Côte des Blancs. Vigneron and paterfamilias, Erick de Sousa is third-generation Portuguese who practices biodynamic viticulture. The De Sousa philosophy adheres to late ripening, allowing the vines to benefit from the mineral-rich soils and to develop palate profiles that are both rich and pure, with most impressive length evidenced across the range.
The De Sousa Brut Réserve is a blanc de blancs, therefore made from 100 percent Chardonnay, its grapes sourced mainly from the village of Avize and sites in its immediate environs. With only six grams of residual sugar, this is a serious and complex wine, with notes of fennel, pear-skin and brioche and a powerful mid-palate, which is almost redolent of beeswax. A distinctive and serious vin de contemplation.
Bottle
£39.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 8cs
Vinified in fût, this is a blend of 90 percent Pinot Noir and 10 percent Chardonnay. The wine has an astonishing purity of flavour, showing its full biodynamic pedigree and a real gout de terroir, its vinous quality in no way overshadowing the pinprick acuity of its attack. Notes of mandarin and quince are also evidenced. One for fruits de mer.
Bottle
£40.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 17cs
From four parcels in four villages, Pierre Peters’ Extra Brut is far from foursquare, stretching its modest two grams of residual sugar into a symphony of stone fruit and flowers. The wine is incredibly complex; the putative austerity of an Extra Brut all but forgotten in this maze of flavours, where one is just as likely to fall upon liquorice and cinnamon as the more usual descriptors of plums and other orchard fruit.
Bottle
£42.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 6cs
Louis Roederer, a wonderful family-owned Champagne House founded in 1776, has a tremendous reputation for quality. It has remained an independent, family-owned company and is now managed by Frédéric Rouzaud, who represents the seventh generation of the lineage. Eighty percent of the firm's needs are supplied by their own, magnificent, 444 acres of vineyard holdings.
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
£42.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 88cs
All Pinot Noir from this fantastic House, the most celebrated co-operative in Champagne by some distance. Mailly is ideally suited to black grapes, its extended ripening period and the ensuing complexity of flavour perfectly captured here. Rich, creamy and food friendly, this is one of the best Blanc de Noirs on the market.
Bottle
£45.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 9cs
This product is discounted by 25% off the single bottle price when purchased by the 6-bottle case.*
Bollinger was established in 1829 by Jacques Bollinger and Paul Renaudin. The House has a reputation for producing muscular Champagnes with body, depth and power; these are classic, complex, Pinot-Noir dominated Champagnes with the ability to age gracefully for many years.
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.
*This offer only applies to 75cl bottles, other formats are not included.
Bottle
£45.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 15cs
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£55.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 9cs
Bottle
£55.00
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.
Magnum
£61.00
Magnum 3 x 150cl 11cs
Simon Field MW – Wine Buyer Until 31st August 2017 this product is discounted by 21%. Prices shown include discount; no further discount will be applied at checkout.
Bottle
£63.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 4cs
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£68.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
Simon Field MW - Wine Buyer
Bottle
£75.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 4cs
With its famous yellow label, this non-vintage Champagne is recognised as Veuve's flagship wine. It is a blend of around 50 Cru village and reserve wines from different vintages. Exhibiting fruit, finesse and style, this is a rich, classic Champagne with a yeasty bouquet that truly deserves its status as a Grande Marque.
Magnum
£95.00
Magnum 3 x 150cl 1cs
Adrian Brice, Fine Wine Buyer
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 17cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle
£155.00
Bottle
£155.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 4cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
From the warm 2006 vintage, this has arich bouquet with hints of zesty fruit, lilies and light toasted hazelnuts. As it develops in the glass the fruit aromas become more intense and complex. The palate confirms the delicate fruit with a deep, ripe flavour and silky texture, finishing crisply with a pure, mineral balance. As a young wine this is already deliciously balanced and charming, and promises to be a magnificent Champagne in full maturity.
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 159cs
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 32cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Magnum 1 x 150cl 1cs
This is from Roederer’s Grand Cru sites with the most chalky terroir. This “solar” vintage produced very ripe fruit which translates to big concentration of red and green apple fruit, beautifully framed by the rich, biscuity, autolytic notes. Unusually Roederer decided to release the 2009 prior to the 2008 vintage as it is more generous and approachable now. Indeed the wine is drinking very well now although it has a long life ahead of it. Enjoy with cod slow-cooked in butter, fruits de mer or caviar for ultimate decadence.
Bottle
£160.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Sharing some of the hallmarks of the superb 2002 at a similar stage – namely its tightly coiled, lemon freshness, this has added breadth and complexity. A classic Pol vintage blend – 60% Pinot Noir with 40% Chardonnay. There is a real depth and power lurking, with gingerbread, brioche, red and orchard fruit on the palate tapering into a finish of extraordinary length. This definitely needs at least a couple of years in the cellar to unlock the hidden complexity. Whisper it quietly, but I think this could turn out to be better than the 2002.
Fergus Stewart - Private Account Manager
This product will be available for delivery from April 2017.
Magnum 3 x 150cl 1cs
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 6cs
Chris Lamb, Private Account Manager
Bottle
£226.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Julia Harding, Jancis Robinson - 21 Mar 2013 Until 31st August 2017 this product is discounted by 20%. Prices shown include discount; no further discount will be applied at checkout.
Bottle
£304.00
Bottle
£325.00
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£325.00
Bottle
£449.00
Case price (Magnum 1 x 150cl)
Magnum 1 x 150cl 18cs
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.