Wine

If exceptional had a name, it would be Champagne Alfred Gratien. Alfred Gratien champagnes are handcrafted for guaranteed quality and consistency. A few miles away from Epernay's bustling town center,...

Roger Voss covers Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, the Loire and South-West France as well as Portugal. His passion is matching food with wine, bringing the pleasures of the table to wine...

With nearly negligible exceptions, three varieties are permitted for use in Champagne:?Chardonnay,?Pinot Noir, and?Pinot Meunier. These can be blended together or bottled as individual varietal Champagnes, depending on the final...

Leclerc Briant is a trailblazing Champagne house producing wines of singular energy and nerve. Lucien Leclerc founded the winery with four hectares of vineyards in Cumieres in 1872. The business...

A country viewed by many as the home of fine wine, it is almost unique in terms of how embedded food and wine is in the nations culture. Given the...

A large part of the reason for this trend is that because of climatic conditions in the Champagne region (about an hour drive northeast of Paris), only about half of...

One of the true gems in Champagne, Larmandier-Bernier is a small grower estate with fifteen biodynamically farmed hectares in Grand Cru & Premier Cru villages of the C?te des Blancs....

Champagne is a labor of love for Pierre and Sophie Larmandier. They discuss each bottle as though it were a child and keep children in mind, as their ethos is...

Year in, year out, France enjoys its prestigious reputation as the producer of the finest wines in the world. With a wine making history which spans several thousand years and...

With nearly negligible exceptions, three varieties are permitted for use in Champagne:?Chardonnay,?Pinot Noir, and?Pinot Meunier. These can be blended together or bottled as individual varietal Champagnes, depending on the final...

Roger Voss covers Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, the Loire and South-West France as well as Portugal. His passion is matching food with wine, bringing the pleasures of the table to wine...

Champagne Brut?is dry, sparkling wine from the Champagne region of northern France. Champagne of any color can be brut, both the standard white and?Ros?. It is made from the classic?Champagne...

The long contact between the deposit and the oak of the barrel gives the Cuv?e 555 its woody taste, aromas of spiced bread and candied fruits. Delicately perfumed to be...

Roger Voss covers Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, the Loire and South-West France as well as Portugal. His passion is matching food with wine, bringing the pleasures of the table to wine...

Roger Voss covers Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, the Loire and South-West France as well as Portugal. His passion is matching food with wine, bringing the pleasures of the table to wine...

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased...

Taittinger Cuv?e Prestige Ros? is intense cherry-pink in color with extremely fine, persistent pinpoint bubbles rising in delicate strands to the surface of the wine. Its classic, aromatic Pinot fragrance...

Champagne Ros?is the?appellation?for Champagne tinted pink by the dark pigment contained in the skins of?Pinot Noir?and?Pinot Meunier?grapes. The wines are sometimes referred to informally as 'pink' champagne.

The French did not invent winemaking. They simply perfected it. For centuries, France has been producing wines that inspire poetry, awe, and wonder; wines that blur the lines between nature,...

Roger Voss covers Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, the Loire and South-West France as well as Portugal. His passion is matching food with wine, bringing the pleasures of the table to wine...

Champagne Ros?is the?appellation?for Champagne tinted pink by the dark pigment contained in the skins of?Pinot Noir?and?Pinot Meunier?grapes. The wines are sometimes referred to informally as 'pink' champagne.

Les Mesnil-sur-Oger, about 12 miles south of Epernay, is one of 17 villages in Champagne awarded the designation Grand Cru for its superior fruit. Le Mesnil is the cooperative of...

Chardonnay?is the world's most famous white-wine grape and also one of the most widely planted. Although the most highly regarded expressions of the variety are those from?Burgundy?and?California, many high-quality examples...

Aspect: A quite intense, brilliantly elegant, golden yellow. \nNose: Intense and rich on the nose. It opens with top notes of dried fruit, almonds and hazelnuts, with grilled or toasted...

Established in 1812, Champagne Laurent-Perrier has a long tradition of innovation in Champagne and can be credited with many of the ideas that have defined Champagne production since the mid...

Sparkling wine is made throughout the world, but can only be called ?Champagne? if it comes from the Champagne region of France. Other regions have their own specialties, like Prosecco...

(8/2016) "I have been terribly excited about this wine since I first learned that (part of) it was still in cement waiting to be bottled in September 2013. I consider...

Champagne Brut?is dry, sparkling wine from the Champagne region of northern France. Champagne of any color can be brut, both the standard white and?Ros?. It is made from the classic?Champagne...

Champagne Extra Brut?is the?AOC?title for the very driest form of the world's most famous sparkling wine. It is sometimes informally expressed as 'Brut Nature'?? a?reference to the fact that the...

The term?Champagne Blend?refers to one of the world's most distinctive wine styles ? the sparkling wines made from?Pinot Noir,?Chardonnay?and?Pinot Meunier?that are most famously associated with the Champagne region of northern...

A term typically reserved for?Champagne and Sparkling Wines, non-vintage or simply ?NV? on a label indicates a blend of finished wines from different vintages (years of harvest). To make non-vintage?Champagne,...