This white grape takes its name from a village in the Mâconnais region of Burgundy in France. It remains widely grown there today, but the variety became so popular in the 1970s that for a time it ...

Full-bodied: Krug Brut Grand Cuvee ($65) is truly a wine drinker`s champagne. It is full bodied, backed with stucture and wood aging and brimming with full flavors and complexity. Bollinger was ...

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A blend of 52% Pinot Noir and 48% Chardonnay from nine different grand and premier cru villages ... the Royal Réserve Brut, guided by the hand of Charles Philipponnat. Champagne Jeeper gets ...

The price is frightening, but Krug is to regular Champagne what Bentley is to Cadillac. This is sumptuously appointed bubbly, a luxurious ride that includes honey, lemon, grilled pineapple, bread ...

Chef de Cave Séverine Frerson continues the great house’s legacy of producing the elegant, energetic Grand Brut that year after year delivers immense pleasure for less money than it tastes like ...

Given this, the house’s non-vintage Grand Brut is often overlooked. A blend of 40% Pinot Noir, 40% Meunier and 20% Chardonnay, there is a pleasing complexity of lemon and plum fruit flavors ...

Since Joseph Krug started his eponymous Champagne house in 1843, the maison had been making its annual Grande Cuvée release in the region’s largest city, Reims. Last year, the company moved to ...

as are the vintage Grand Année ($200) and R.D. ($350). Vintus, Pleasantville, N.Y. Idiosyncratic yet gorgeous Champagnes, from the savory, numbered, extra brut nonvintages (currently No. 747 ...