Jean Milan, Brut Spéciale Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs
Oger is located in the Côte des Blancs between Avize to the north (think Le Brun Servenay and Agrapart) and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger to the south (think Pierre Peters). Continue reading
Category Archives: Grower Champagne Club
Grower Champagne Club – April 2015
Erik Rodez, Cuvée des Crayeres
Ambonnay is a renowned Grand Cru village in the Montagne de Reims. Continue reading
Grower Champagne Club – March 2015
Roger Pouillon et Fils, Brut Cuvée de Réserve
Like many grower-producers in Champagne today, the Pouillon family grew grapes in the region for decades before they began making their own Champagne from their fruit. Continue reading
Grower Champagne Club – February 2015
R.H. Coutier, Blanc de Blancs NV
If you attended our annual grower Champagne tasting in December, you may have been here when we finished the second bottle of Coutier Rosé and the importer pulled out a different Champagne by the same producer from a “special stash” he’d brought. Continue reading
Grower Champagne Club – January 2015
2005 Pierre Moncuit-Delos, Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs
The Champagnes of Pierre Moncuit are quintessential examples of pure, terroir-driven wine, beautifully expressive of the local Kimmeridgian limestone soil of the Côtes des Blancs. Continue reading
Grower Champagne Club – December 2014
2005 Domaine Lancelot-Royer, Cramant Blanc de Blancs
This Champagne can be summed up in one word: elegant. Continue reading
Grower Champagne Club – November 2014
NV Jean Vesselle, Oeil de Perdrix
There is a reason this wine is called “eye of the partridge.” Continue reading
Grower Champagne Club – October 2014
NV Le Brun Serveney, Brut Sélection Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs
The Le Brun family have been growing and producing Champagne in the small Côte des Blancs commune of Avize for generations. Continue reading
Grower Champagne Club – September 2014
Camille Savès, Brut Millésime 2007
The story of this house dates back to the 1890s, when work as an agricultural engineer took Eugène Savès to Champagne. Continue reading
Grower Champagne Club – August 2014
J. Lassalle, Brut Préférence
It’s hard to forget the story of this house, based in the village of Chigny-Les-Roses in the Montaigne de Reims, whose philosophy is Un Esprit, un Style, une Femme, or “One spirit, one style, one woman.” Continue reading