{"title":"Grandes Marques Champagnes","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrandes Marques Champagne are the wines from the greatest houses of Champagne, names like Moet, Veuve, Roederer, Boli, Pol Roger... and more. They are sometimes contrasted with Grower Champagnes, which generally come from smaller producers who make wine only from grapes they grow themselves..\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany of these illustrious estates make a \u003cem\u003etête de\u003c\/em\u003e cuvée, or top wine, that is legendary (Roederer's Cristal\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eMoet's Dom Pérignon. But they all make entry level wines that express a house style year after year, come rain or shine. These are delicious, dependably decadent wines that will never fail to hit the mark. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"veuve-clicquot-champagne-yellow-label-brut-nv","title":"Veuve Clicquot, Champagne Yellow Label Brut, NV [Net: Non-Discountable]","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Yellow Label from Veuve Cliquot is one of the most widely-recognized quality Champagnes in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNON-DISCOUNTABLE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Empire Merchants [EMP]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":10769599561785,"sku":"NYC-NYC-6- 081753050207","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Veuve-Clicquot-Champagne-Yellow-Label-Brut-NV-Net-Non-Discountable-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_68238b8b.jpg?v=1768487884"},{"product_id":"pol-roger-champagne-brut-reserve-nv","title":"Pol Roger, Champagne Brut Reserve, NV (Non-discountable)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePol Roger has been a favorite Champagne in the US ever since Winston Churchill had an imperial pint every day at lunch.  He said it was just the right size. Not as big as a full bottle but one glass more than a half bottle.  Just right. The reputation is deserved. It is one of the few great houses still entirely family run. They are only a tenth the size of the really big houses, and focus their budgets on making high quality wines every year, rather than on marketing. The house style focuses on elegance and drinkability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wildman [WMN]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31288662163513,"sku":"NYC-6-960506","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Pol-Roger-Champagne-Brut-Reserve-NV-Non-discountable-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1768488364"},{"product_id":"ruinart-champagne-blanc-de-blancs-nv","title":"Ruinart, Champagne Blanc de Blancs, NV [Non-Discountable]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"...Light yellow-gold. Smoky citrus and orchard fruits on the deeply perfumed, mineral-tinged nose. 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Packs a serious punch but carries no excess weight and finishes stony and very long, with echoing red berry character. 92 pts\" -- Josh Raynolds, Vinous\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Empire Merchants [EMP]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31721434808377,"sku":"NYC-5-EMP-2004-051820-2","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Ruinart-Champagne-Brut-Rose-NV-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_5774cc71.jpg?v=1768488473"},{"product_id":"laurent-perrier-champagne-brut-cuvee-rose-nv-750ml","title":"Laurent Perrier, Champagne Brut Cuvee Rose, NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe rose Champagne everyone else imitates, and almost nobody makes the same way. This is a maceration rose: the Pinot Noir is destemmed and left on its skins for two to three days to take up color and aroma, rather than the far more common shortcut of blending a little still red wine into white. Bernard de Nonancourt introduced it in 1968, when rose Champagne was still treated as a curiosity, and it remains 100% Pinot Noir drawn from ten crus on the Montagne de Reims and aged around five years before release. Even the bottle is a period piece, its squat, rounded shape modeled on a flask from the time of Henri IV. What you get is unusually pure, direct red fruit with real freshness under it, which is why it works as well at the table as it does on a terrace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow [WBW]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39444856111161,"sku":"NYC-5-WBW-30018492-110221-3","price":102.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Laurent-Perrier-Champagne-Brut-Cuvee-Rose-NV-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1773932814"},{"product_id":"laurent-perrier-champagne-brut-la-cuvee-nv-750ml","title":"Laurent Perrier, Champagne Brut La Cuvee, NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eChardonnay-led, in a category where the big houses usually lean on Pinot Noir — and that single choice explains the whole wine. More than half of La Cuvee is Chardonnay, which is why it comes across light on its feet, more citrus and white flowers than red fruit, built around freshness rather than weight. Laurent-Perrier, based in Tours-sur-Marne, made its name in the second half of the twentieth century by pushing that leaner, purer style at a time when most of Champagne was richer and more oxidative. The blend draws on more than a hundred crus with 15 to 30% reserve wine, and it ages around four years on the lees, well past the legal minimum for a non-vintage. Chill it properly and pour it into a real glass rather than a flute; it is an aperitif Champagne that doesn't fall apart next to food.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow [WBW]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39444856143929,"sku":"NYC-5-WBW-30197275-110221-4","price":67.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Laurent-Perrier-Champagne-Brut-La-Cuvee-NV-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1773932815"},{"product_id":"l-hoste-pere-champagne-brut-cuvee-origine-nv-750ml","title":"L'Hoste Pere \u0026 Fils, Champagne Brut Cuvee Origine, NV","description":"The best value Champagne we've found this year — and it comes from a corner of the region most drinkers have never heard of. The L'Hoste family farms at Bassuet, in the heart of the Vitryat, a small pocket of chalk where Chardonnay overwhelmingly rules. Cuvée Origine is their traditional blended bottling, marrying the finesse of Chardonnay with the fruity lift of Pinot Noir, and the family frames it exactly as it drinks: a festive, all-occasion Champagne rather than a bottle you save for a speech. Jean and Suzanne L'Hoste founded the house in 1970 and it grew under their children Pascal and Dominique, who work with respect for nature and combine modern technology with traditional methods. Grower Champagne of this quality, from a genuinely obscure terroir, is where the real bargains in the region still hide.","brand":"TWINS Bordeaux, America [FOV] [TBA]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41412661805113,"sku":"NYC-TBA-`LY22-0359-NV`-081023-2","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/LHoste-Pere-Fils-Champagne-Brut-Cuvee-Origine-NV-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_3847e012.jpg?v=1768490227"},{"product_id":"krug-champagne-grande-cuvee-172nd-editiion-nv-750ml","title":"Krug, Champagne Brut \"Grande Cuvee\" 172eme Edition, NV [Non-Discountable]","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat more can we say? 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It combines ripe orchard fruit and chalky tension with extraordinary finesse, making it both immediately captivating and cellar-worthy for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does this wine taste like?\n\u003cbr\u003ePrecise and layered, with aromas of lemon confit, white peach, hazelnut, and chalk. The palate is creamy yet taut, revealing citrus, brioche, and mineral depth. Long, saline, and endlessly refined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen should you drink this wine?\n\u003cbr\u003eDrink now for its vibrancy or cellar through 2045 to reveal greater depth and complexity. Perfect with oysters, lobster, or caviar. 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The 2012 vintage was a classic study in adversity rewarded: spring frosts and hail cut yields by forty percent, heavy rain through mid-July pushed mildew pressure to extremes, but a dramatic August reversal brought perfect conditions through harvest. The seventy-percent Chardonnay, thirty-percent Pinot Noir blend—primarily from Montagne de Reims and Côte des Blancs—emerged with extraordinary concentration married to vibrant acidity. Ten years on the lees have built layers of toasted almond, candied orange peel, golden plum, and apricot. A Champagne of rare depth—appropriately named.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Empire Merchants [EMP]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889853984825,"sku":"NYC-EMP-`64909`-091925-2","price":279.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Rare-Champagne-Brut-Millesime-Piper-Heidsieck-2012-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_41fd255d.jpg?v=1768514865"},{"product_id":"veuve-clicquot-champagne-brut-la-grande-dame-2018-750ml","title":"Veuve Clicquot, Champagne Brut 'La Grande Dame', 2018","description":"The 25th vintage of La Grande Dame comes from a year the house calls \"a harvest when the sun was truly smiling\" — 2018 delivered ripeness close to perfection across the eight historic grand cru vineyards that feed this cuvée. The blend is 90% Pinot Noir to 10% Chardonnay, and that dominance isn't a stylistic whim: Pinot Noir was Madame Clicquot's favourite variety, and she wrote that black grapes give the finest white wines. Didier Mariotti's job is tuning the tension between those selected Pinot Noirs until you get power without weight — the precision that separates this from the many prestige cuvées that simply taste rich. Dosage is a restrained 6 g\/L, with no Meunier in the blend, which is why the wine reads as taut rather than plush despite the sunny year. 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The blend skews unusually Chardonnay-forward (around 60%, the most Chardonnay-dominant Dom since 1970), giving a wine of seductive tension: the ripe, exotic side of the warm summer pulling against a wiry, mineral, almost saline spine. Chef de Caves Vincent Chaperon — who succeeded Richard Geoffroy and inherited this harvest — has called it a 'wild, exotic' Dom Pérignon. Released after seven-plus years on the lees, as the house has always done. 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After a brief sale in 2005, the family reclaimed ownership the following year; today great-grandchildren Vitalie and Clovis Taittinger run operations, with nearly 300 hectares of estate vineyards behind them — unusual self-sufficiency for a producer of this scale. Brut La Française showcases the house style: 40 percent Chardonnay (unusually high for a non-vintage Champagne), 35 percent Pinot Noir and 25 percent Meunier, drawn from at least 35 villages and aged close to four years on the lees, more than double the legal minimum. The half-bottle is the practical format here — two proper glasses, chilled in minutes, nothing left over. 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The exact blend stays a family secret, but it is Pinot Noir-dominant with Chardonnay from the house's best sites in the Montagne de Reims and Cote des Blancs, fermented cool in stainless steel, taken fully through malolactic, hand-riddled, then aged at length in cellars 33 meters beneath Epernay and finished with about seven grams of dosage. 2018 started wet enough to keep growers busy against mildew, then turned hot and dry through the summer, and the Pinot Noir in particular came in with exceptional ripeness and impeccable tannins. 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The L'Hoste family farms 18 hectares on the Vitryat's limestone hills at Bassuet, slopes prized for their sun exposure and the ripeness and aromatic lift they give Chardonnay. Jean and Suzanne L'Hoste founded the house in 1970, and it grew under their children Pascal and Dominique; Chardonnay has always been the dominant variety here. This Terroir de Chardonnay cuvée is drawn from the estate's best Chardonnay parcels and is the one all-Chardonnay bottling in a range that otherwise leans on Pinot Noir too — the family calls it the signature of their savoir-faire, and it's hard to argue. Fine and elegant on the nose, generous on the palate, with limestone minerality holding the finish together. 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Laurent-Perrier, based in Tours-sur-Marne, made its name in the second half of the twentieth century by pushing that leaner, purer style at a time when most of Champagne was richer and more oxidative. The blend draws on more than a hundred crus with 15 to 30% reserve wine, and it ages around four years on the lees, well past the legal minimum for a non-vintage. Chill it properly and pour it into a real glass rather than a flute; it is an aperitif Champagne that doesn't fall apart next to food.","brand":"Winebow [WBW]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50565545295929,"sku":"NYC-W-WBW-`30197274`-092526-42","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/IMG-4796.jpg?v=1790796768"},{"product_id":"jacquesson-champagne-extra-brut-cuvee-749-nv","title":"Jacquesson, Champagne Extra Brut \"Cuvee 749\", NV","description":null,"brand":"Wilson Daniels (MHW) [WDS]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620539109433,"sku":"NYC-W-WDS-`105041407524NV`-100126-49","price":114.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/IMG-4846.jpg?v=1790970912"},{"product_id":"taittinger-champagne-comtes-de-champagne-2004","title":"Taittinger, Champagne Comtes de Champagne, 2004","description":"Taittinger's vineyards lean toward Pinot Noir, yet its flagship is all Chardonnay, and this 2004 Comtes de Champagne now has two decades behind it. The house's own plantings are 48% Pinot Noir, 37% Chardonnay and 15% Pinot Meunier, so the Comtes is a deliberate choice. The cuvée draws only on the five Grand Cru villages of the Côte des Blancs: Avize, Chouilly, Cramant, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger and Oger. It isn't made every year. Since its creation in 1952, a Comtes has only been declared when the vintage meets the house's standard. For the 2004, only first-press juice went in, a small share was fermented in new oak, and the wine spent roughly eight to twelve years on its lees. Here's some trivia worth sharing while you pour: Comtes ages 18 metres underground, in chalk galleries carved in Gallo-Roman times beneath the Saint-Nicaise hill in Reims. If you want to see what top-tier Blanc de Blancs turns into with patience, this is a fine bottle to open, and it comes from one of the few Champagne houses still run by a family.","brand":"Acker Merrall \u0026 Condit [AC]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630726746169,"sku":"NYC-A-OREGON1026-100226-15-7","price":359.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Taittinger-Champagne-Comtes-de-Champagne-2004-Sparkling-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1791018197"},{"product_id":"taittinger-champagne-comtes-de-champagne-2006","title":"Taittinger, Champagne Comtes de Champagne, 2006","description":"This is where Taittinger puts its best Chardonnay. Comtes de Champagne is made only in exceptional years, entirely from the five Grand Cru villages of the Côte des Blancs, and only from first-press juice. It's a blend of villages more than anything else. Taittinger's vineyard director says Avize brings delicacy, Chouilly tender fruit, Cramant softness, Oger sunshine and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger an austere depth that only shows itself with time. In 2006 just 5% of the wine spent three to four months in new oak, which is seasoning rather than a statement. The rest of its time was spent on the lees in 13th-century chalk cellars that once belonged to the abbey of Saint Nicaise. The house singled out the 2006 for its mix of maturity and finesse and for its ability to age, and nearly two decades after the harvest is a good time to find out what that means. Vitalie Taittinger, who runs this family house with Clovis Taittinger, calls the cuvée a poem. We'd say it shows how much Chardonnay can say at just 12% alcohol. 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