Wine Pairing: Champagne Diebolt-Vallois Prestige Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut Prestige is the cuvée that explains Diebolt-Vallois in one glass. It is a pure Chardonnay Champagne built from four Grand Cru villages in the Côte des Blancs, yet it is not merely linear or austere. Stainless-steel wines supply brightness; a perpetual reserve held in large oak vats contributes breadth and quiet maturity; four grams per liter of dosage preserve a dry, finely balanced finish. The curren

Wine Pairing: Champagne Ruppert-Leroy Fosse Grely Brut Nature 2022 Fosse Grely is a single-vineyard Champagne that shows why the Côte des Bar has become essential to the conversation about terroir-driven sparkling wine. Rather than smoothing away vintage and place into a broad house style, Bénédicte Ruppert and Emmanuel Leroy translate one forest-ringed slope near Essoyes into a dry, energetic wine of equal parts Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The 2022 release is vivid rather tha

Wine Pairing: Champagne Doyard Vendémiaire 1er Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut A Côte des Blancs Champagne Built for the Table Champagne Doyard Vendémiaire 1er Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut is a Chardonnay-driven grower Champagne with the precision of the Côte des Blancs and the breadth required for a complete meal. Its name refers to Vendémiaire, the harvest month in the French Republican calendar, an apt signal for a cuvée whose identity begins with ripe fruit from mature v