Discover the top 100 best sparkling wines of Champagne as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the sparkling wines that are popular of Champagne and the best vintages to taste in this region.
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.
Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.
sparkling wines from the region of Champagne go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of turkey roulades, flavoured sauce, rice with tuna and tomato or marinated mussels with parsley.
On the nose in the region of Champagne 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 is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
