Top 100 red wines of Champagne
Discover the top 100 best red wines of Champagne as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the red wines that are popular of Champagne and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Champagne
World benchmark sparkling wines: fine bubbles, citrusy tension, notes of brioche, toasted almond, white flowers and white-fleshed fruits after ageing on lees. Three grapes blended or solo: fleshy Pinot Noir (38%), fruity Meunier (33%), chiselled Chardonnay (28%). From straight Blanc de Blancs to vinous Blanc de Noirs, from non-vintage Brut to age-worthy Millésimé. AOC since 1927, 34,300 ha on chalk, 17 Grands Crus and 44 Premiers Crus.
The aperitif and celebration wine.
Discover the grape variety: Pinot Meunier
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.
Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Champagne
red wines from the region of Champagne go well with generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of osso buco, chicken blanquette or mixed paella valenciana.
Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Champagne
On the nose in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of cherry, earthy or minerality and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, strawberries or vanilla.
