US$88.92 RP93) The 2009 Extra Brut Fidele (Pinot Noir) is rich, exuberant and powerful. Dried pears, white orchard fruit, flowers and spices burst from the glass in this intense, head-spinning Champagne. Clean veins of minerality frame a huge, powerful finish imbued with the essence of Pinot. Weighty, rich and powerful, the 2009 impresses for its fabulous balance and inviting, utterly...

US$100.03 100% Chardonnay From the oldest estate Grand Cru vineyards in the village of Cramant, these vines range from 50-70 years of age. Fermentation in old oak casks with over five years aging on the lees and 2gr/l dosage.

US$107.44 Relatively new on the scene, Jerome Prévost, and his estate called Champagne La Closerie, is part of a small but growing group of tiny producers making intense, vinous-styled Champagnes. Rather than follow the traditional Champagne model of blending grapes, vintages, and vineyards to produce a "standardized" product, Prevost (as well as some other of these "Champagne Renegades") produce single...

US$70.39 Publication: Wine advocate Rating: 93 Larmandier-Bernier’s non-dosage 2008 Extra Brut Nature Blanc de Blancs Terre de Vertus – initially raised in a combination of small barrels and foudres – is both salty and overtly chalky, and mingles freshly milled and lightly toasted grain with fresh lemon and apple on the nose and a juicy palate. Bittersweet iris perfume and...

US$140.79 92 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate From a rare sandy, virtually clay-free parcel of pure Pinot Blanc planted in 1960, Bouchard’s 2008 Brut Blanc de Blancs La Boloree delivers varietally classic apple, lemon and sweet corn both in the nose and on a luscious palate where they are mingled with oyster liquor and an oceanic amalgam of salt, alkali,...

US$220.81 Anselme Selosse, variously described as eccentric, obsessed, charismatic and messianic,depending on one's point of view, is one of the most fascinating vignerons at work in Champagne today. His philosophy is conspicuously Burgundian in the winery, where all of his 35 Chardonnay plots (in Avize, Cramant, Oger, Le Mesnil, Ay, Mareuil-sur- Ay and Ambonnay) are vinified separately in small Burgundian...

US$166.72 Anselme Selosse, variously described as eccentric, obsessed, charismatic and messianic,depending on one's point of view, is one of the most fascinating vignerons at work in Champagne today. His philosophy is conspicuously Burgundian in the winery, where all of his 35 Chardonnay plots (in Avize, Cramant, Oger, Le Mesnil, Ay, Mareuil-sur- Ay and Ambonnay) are vinified separately in small Burgundian...

US$139.30 Anselme Selosse, variously described as eccentric, obsessed, charismatic and messianic,depending on one's point of view, is one of the most fascinating vignerons at work in Champagne today. His philosophy is conspicuously Burgundian in the winery, where all of his 35 Chardonnay plots (in Avize, Cramant, Oger, Le Mesnil, Ay, Mareuil-sur- Ay and Ambonnay) are vinified separately in small Burgundian...

US$111.15 (RP91) The NV Extra-Brut Blanc d’Argile is simply wonderful. Chablis-like in its purity, the wine shows off a focused expression of smoke, flint, minerals and citrus. The oak gives the Blanc d’Argile just enough richness to counter the bone-dry style. This is a fascinating Champagne from Vouette et Sorbee. Disgorged: October 28, 2008. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2016.

US$107.44 R10. Degorge : 19 Nov 2012 / Pinot Noir 100% Rose Champagne. / Purely concentrated, energetic, without any aggressiveness. Champagne for wine connoisseurs.

US$107.44 Cédric Bouchard is one of the fastest rising stars of Champagne. Having only started his own label in 2000, he has quickly earned a reputation as Champagne’s most talented new wine producer, and was awarded the title of Champagne’s finest winemaker for the year 2008 by the Gault Millau. Bouchard embraces a revolutionary philosophy of bottling single vineyard, single...

US$166.72 Anselme Selosse, variously described as eccentric, obsessed, charismatic and messianic,depending on one's point of view, is one of the most fascinating vignerons at work in Champagne today. His philosophy is conspicuously Burgundian in the winery, where all of his 35 Chardonnay plots (in Avize, Cramant, Oger, Le Mesnil, Ay, Mareuil-sur- Ay and Ambonnay) are vinified separately in small Burgundian...