Champagne

"The 2003 Dom Pérignon is in a gorgeous place right now. To be sure, it is a powerful Champagne that reflects the personality of a year marked by f...

"Tasting older than expected, the wine focuses on its lush, ripe, slightly honeyed, sweet, fresh, red cherries, strawberries, flowers, touch of ora...

"The first hints of dried herbs rapidly give way to candied grapefruit and cinnamon. This is rounded off with notes of biscuit and raisin. The sens...

"Exceptionally rich and dense, an exceptional wine that reveals itself in layers, from the first fruit attack to the mineral texture and the way it...

"Clearly, this is in contention as one of the best vintages of DP ever produced. The power, levels of concentration, balance, freshness, purity and...

"The wine has achieved an intense, full and radiant bouquet, with notes of honeysuckle, orange colored fruits, toasted almonds and hints of iodine ...

"I believe that the 2005 DP is the best since 2002, which remains the best recent vintage and is probably only eclipsed by the amazing 100-point 19...

 "The 2003 Dom Pérignon is in a gorgeous place right now. To be sure, it is a powerful Champagne that reflects the personality of a year marked by ...

"Bright rosé colour with a copper hue and fine stream of small bubbles. Lovely intensity and perfume, very pinot-driven with Vosne-Romanée like aro...

Aromatic notes of lemon, perfumed jasmine, dried apricot, and peach grace the nose of this vintage Champagne. The citrus fruit essence harmonizes w...

"The 2013 is the most powerful, dense young Salon I have ever tasted. Champagne of mind-bending complexity, the 2013 possesses tremendous midpalate...

"A fine and lacy mousse is draped over a firm frame of well-integrated acidity, belying the complexity of this elegant Champagne. A delicately wove...

"2000 vintage Krug has a wonderful freshness and a subtle, tight character, with biscuit and brioche, but a delightful floral and soft herb quality...

"This is a lightweight Cristal, floating and fresh, without the punch this great wine can have from Pinot Noir. It is also way too young. To taste,...

"Deep and generous, yet driven, with delicious salted-butter and salted-caramel notes underneath the initial lemon and chalk. Really expands on the...

"Fabulous nose with great blood orange intensity neatly framed by brioche. On the extravagant and concentrated palate this has whiplash vibrancy ye...

"Still very youthful, this proves that pinot noir can give super-elegant, cool and tightly focused Champagne. Toastiness and spice build on the ver...

Champagne vintages signify excellence despite style variations. Grand Siecle goes beyond individual vintages, aiming for a perfect blend. The 26th ...

"A Champagne that has turned to a very fine texture with dried pineapple and lemon character. Medium to full body, complex and flavorful palate. Sh...

"Fantastic from the start. A colossal power of beautiful rumbling Pinot maturity. It’s like chewing on the ripest grapes from Aÿ and Verzenay. At t...

"A pretty DP now with richness and freshness, showing dried-lemon and light apricot character. Some pineapple, too. It’s full-bodied and grows on t...

"A vivid version, like raw silk on the palate, with a powerful frame of acidity well-meshed with saline-tinged, minerally underpinnings and flavors...

"Like taffeta in texture, this harmonious Champagne is finely honed and fresh. A wonderfully expressive version, with ample spice and graphite acce...

"Saffron and smoke notes waft from the glass of this rich and creamy rosé Champagne. The finely detailed bead carries flavors of baked strawberry, ...

This is the same Dom Perignon inside the bottle, but with a special battery powered label that glows when you turn it on. "Incredibly complex nose ...

"This graceful Champagne offers hints of smoke and toasted brioche that transition to patisserie apple and blackberry fruit, candied ginger and man...

"Just about as good as it gets, the 2012 Cristal Rosé is a magical effort based on 56% Pinot Noir and 44% Chardonnay. It’s a powerful, medium to fu...

"OMG. A masterpiece. A benchmark. Tight and structured, with fantastic precision and structure. Sharp line of acidity throughout, with fine and tig...

"A pretty DP now with richness and freshness, showing dried-lemon and light apricot character. Some pineapple, too. It’s full-bodied and grows on t...

"Long-time Chef de Caves Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon has produced yet another in a string of superb Champagnes with the 2007 Cristal. Rich, powerful an...

"This is quite chalky with firm phenolics that frame the wine beautifully. It’s medium-to full-bodied with strawberries and earth. Dense, linear an...

"The 1995 Clos du Mesnil shows pretty notes of autumn leaves, truffles and citrus. It is a rather fat, texturally rich vintage that probably won’t ...

"Another stellar wine, the 2004 Dom Pérignon is just starting to show the first signs of aromatic development, as well as a bit of added weight it ...

"Generous, elegant and full of pleasure, there's lots of complexity in this curvy wine. It has a rich creaminess with minerals, chalky depth and a ...

"This eloquent 2013 Champagne from Dom Perignon has an enticing waft of Mandarin orange on the nose that continues on the palate, which is layered ...

The 2012 Philipponnat Clos des Goisses Extra Brut is a notable Champagne produced by the esteemed Champagne house, Philipponnat. Clos des Goisses i...

The 2014 Louis Roederer Cristal Millésime Brut is an exceptional Champagne produced by the prestigious Champagne house, Louis Roederer. Cristal is ...

The 2015 Pol Roger Vintage Brut is a notable Champagne produced by the esteemed Champagne house, Pol Roger. Known for their quality and traditional...

"The 2012 La Grande Dame is terrific. In fact, it is one of the finest recent Grande Dames I can remember tasting. Vibrant and tense, the 2012 ex...

"The bouquet is mesmerizing, ripe, and complex. The opening notes are a blend of dark spices and cocoa which develop very quickly into fruit aromas...

"The 2012 Dom Pérignon has turned out very well indeed, unwinding in the glass with notes of Anjou pear, smoke, toasted nuts, freshly baked bread...

"A fine hint of candied lemon appears before a flinty, almost smouldering creaminess on the nose, promising richness. The palate comes in with imme...