NV Brut, Champagne Germar Breton, Aube

Champagne Blend

This delightful, and rather smart looking, Champagne comes from the relatively young Champagne House of Germar Breton that was established in 2005.  Based in the southerly Aube region, they make approachable, terrific value wines from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.  This wonderful introduction to their range shows expressive brioche, green apple and quince fruit and has wonderfully balanced acidity.  Germar Breton are certainly a Champagne House to keep an eye on.

£34.00

NV Cremant de Die, Jean-Claude Raspail et Fils

White Blend

£22.95

NV Cremant de Loire, Domaine du Landreau

Chenin Blanc Blend

Domaine du Landreau are 4th generation growers who produce a range of clean, crisp and expressive wines in the central Loire Valley.  The Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc grapes are hand harvested over several passages through the vineyard, ensuring the grapes are picked at their optimum ripeness.  A slow, cool ferment and 3 years lees ageing help this traditional method sparkling wine develop it's delicate floral, citrus and apple notes with nutty undertones.  Elegant on the finish with a creamy texture courtesy of the ageing make this a stunning value alternative to entry-level Champagnes.

£17.95

NV Cremant Du Jura ‘Cuvee Bethanie’, Fruitiere Vinicole Arbois

Chardonnay

One of our best selling sparkling wines, this stunning Cremant is given added complexity by the addition of 2cl of Vin Jaune at dosage.  The result adds a rich, nutty and savoury edge to what is otherwise traditional method 100% Chardonnay, which tasted blind could pass for an aged Champagne.  Not everyone's cup of tea but certainly popular and curious enough to keep customers coming back for more!

£25.95

NV Cuvee Bonheur Rose, Baron De Chantclerc, Languedoc-Roussillon

Alcohol Free

This de-alcoholised fizz is made from Grenache grapes at Domaine la Colombette and is the best lo/no wine that we've come across to date.  The Domaine are pioneers in the languedoc, taking a sustainable approach to winemaking and doing lots of research into disease resistant vines as well as low volume and de-alcoholised wines.  Fresh red fruits, strawberry and raspberry, and a crisp, clean finish. 

£7.99

NV Cuvee de Reserve Blanc de Noirs, Champagne Gallimard, Magnum

Champagne Blend

The Cuvee de Reserve is extremely approachable and one of our best selling Champagnes.  Exuberant, rounded and almost dangerously easy drinking, it's a widely appealing style that keeps customers coming back for more again and again.

£75.00

NV Cuvee De Reserve Blanc De Noirs, Champagne Gallimard

Champagne Blend

The NV Cuvee de Reserve is extremely approachable and one of our best selling Champagnes.  Exuberant, rounded and almost dangerously easy drinking, it's a widely appealing style that keeps customers coming back for more again and again.

£35.00

NV Cuvee de Reserve, Champagne Gallimard, Half Bottle

Champagne Blend

Didier Gallimard owns 10 hectares of prime vineyards on the steep slopes around Les Riceys in the southern Aube. Didier’s son Arnaud has joined him, becoming the seventh generation, and the long-term future is now secure. Their vines’ average age is over 30 years and the dramatically sloping vineyards, which are of chalk and Kimmeridgian limestone, are planted mainly to Pinot Noir and just a little Chardonnay. Their wines are full and rich and offer enticing aromas and flavours of summer fruits.

£18.95

NV Germar Breton Blanc de Noirs, Cotes des Bar

Pinot Noir

We are big fans of Germar Breton here at DWC.  Family owned and run with a personal touch, this Champagne house produce friendly wines that are generous, approachable and almost dangerously drinkable.  The elegant Blanc de Noirs is made with 100% Pinot Noir, including 20% reserve wine, and shows an intense nose of hazlenuts and dried fruits alongside peach and citrus fruit.  The generous palate is intense and persistent with a lovely balance of fruit and freshness with nutty undertones.

£38.00

NV Grande Rose, Champagne Gosset, Ay

Champagne Blend

The nose is clearly marked by the strawberries both the fresh fruit and as jam. Wild red cherry, redcurrant and with a hint of grapefruit dominate the palate. The mouth is well structured with a constant tension between freshness and a fruity roundness.

£75.00

NV Original 60/40, Champagne Delavenne, Grand Cru Bouzy

Champagne Blend

The Brut Tradition Original 60/40 is made up of 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay from two vintages which are fermented with natural yeasts in stainless steel.  It's extremely classy with a great depth of flavour showing apple fritter and brioche with fresh apple and lemon drop charatcters.  We are delighted to have these wines on our shelves, and also very lucky seeing as most of the production ends up on the tables of some of France's best Michelin Starred restaurants.

£42.00

NV Rose Grand Cru, Champagne Delavenne, Bouzy

Champagne Blend

Delavenne are an outstanding family run grower based in Bouzy making elegant, organic and vegan friendly Champagnes exclusively from their Grand Cru vineyards.  Minimal intervention and no malolactic fermentation means that the wines are clean and lively with a distinct purity.  This amazing rosé has wonderful red fruit (strawberry and raspberry) character with hints of rose petal and baked apple.  The palate contains a bit of weight and a creamy texture making it great as a food wine. 

£47.00

NV Special Cuvee, Champagne Bollinger

Champagne Blend

There is no denying the class of Bollinger and their distinctive dry, full bodied style is world renowned.  60% Pinot Noir with 25% Chardonnay and 15% Pinot Meunier, the wine contains a large amount of reserve wines, some of which is aged in magnum for between 5 & 15 years, developing complexity to add to the finished product.  Complex, lively and beautifully poised, this is one of the few Grand Marque Champagnes we stock as it's a staff favourite that never fails to disappoint.

£55.00

NV Turbullent Champs Libre, Domaine Serol

Gamay

The Turbullent Rose is a deliciously light, refreshing and pretty rose made in the Methode Ancestrale way (not quite a Pet Nat).  With fresh raspberry and red fruits, crisp acidity and a melt in the mouth palate, this is a delightful wine made with the local Gamay Saint Romain variety in the southernmost AC in the Loire.  

£22.00

NV Voulez Vous Couche Avec Moi? Vincent Couche

Chardonnay

Vincent Couche is a biodynamic grape grower in Champagne who also owns some vines in Burgundy, where he makes this de-classified Cremantde Bourgogne.  Taking a 'Grower Chamagne' approach to cremant, 30% of the grapes are oak fermented and aged in a solera so do not conform to the regulations of Cremant.  Who cares when the wine is this good!  Vibrant and amazingly drinkable, this zesty, complex and downright drinkable fizz is true real delight, showing zesty mineral tinged citrus, baked apple and whiffs of brioche.  No added sulphur makes it all the more appealing.

£23.95