Before the perpetual reserve, Roederer’s multi-vintage champagne, Brut Premier, was a fine, reliable wine. Its composition included about 15 per cent reserve wines. Now, the multi-vintages made ...

This white grape takes its name from a village in the Mâconnais region of Burgundy in France. It remains widely grown there today, but the variety became so popular in the 1970s that for a time it ...

Today it’s owned by Maison Louis Roederer of Champagne fame, and this brioche-scented, citrusy-savory sparkling wine draws on their lengthy experience. Langlois Crémant de Loire Brut Réserve ...

Clouet’s Brut Grand Reserve ... than Cristal even (the top-shelf Roederer bottling), and second only to the unscalable heights of Salon for the finest house Champagne in the world.

$40, 0.9%RS (dry). #3. Roederer Estate Brut MV (Anderson Valley AVA, Mendocino County, CA): Always a crowd-pleaser, and frequently mistaken for French champagne in blind tastings, this wine has an ...