Discover the top 100 best wines of Champagne Grand Cru of Champagne Grand Cru as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Champagne Grand Cru and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Elite of Champagne: 17 villages rated 100% on the cru scale (1919), only 5% of the 319 communes. Exceptional bubbles with signature notes of brioche, toasted hazelnut, honey, candied citrus, russet apple and chalky minerality, a chiselled finish. Cote des Blancs (Avize, Cramant, Mesnil) sublimates taut, saline Chardonnay. Montagne de Reims (Ambonnay, Bouzy, Verzenay) magnifies fleshy, deep Pinot Noir.
Vallee de la Marne (Ay) holds both. Summit of the methode champenoise.
Vinified almost exclusively as a base for Champagne AOC, where it brings freshness, fruitiness and immediate roundness to blends (apple, pear, red fruit, brioche notes); it is the most approachable young of the three Champagne varieties. Represents about one third of plantings, the absolute signature of the Vallée de la Marne. Also vinified as single varietal by some growers (blanc-de-noirs meunier champagnes). A cottony-leaved mutation of Pinot Noir, autochthonous to Champagne.
wines from the region of Champagne Grand Cru go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of sloth pork loin, cod "bacalhau a gomes de sa or valencian paella.
On the nose in the region of Champagne Grand Cru often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices. In the mouth in the region of Champagne Grand Cru is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
