Throughout the decades, Rare Champagne a very few vintages, the most demanding in Champagne, all in limited production. Régis Camus, the Cellar Master of Rare Champagne selects a truly singular year, when nature has been tamed, when time and expertise unveil exceptional Champagne, gifted with a distinctive character and endless longevity. An uncompromising approach to the art of Champagne, achieves the most complex, distinguished and pure expression to be found anywhere in the world of great wines.

$41999each $5039DOZEN EACH DOZEN Piper-Heidsieck boasts one of the largest selections of Crus, representing all the nuances of Champagne's splendid terroir, including choice parcels of Grands and Premiers Crus, a guarantee of quality. Vinification has always been conducted to an uncompromising attention for detail. Each Cru and grape variety is vinified separately. Reserve wines from earlier years are added to create a more rounded wine and ensure consistency of the Piper-Heidsieck style. Ultimately, assembling the components determines integrity, the art of blending, where human input is of paramount importance. The man in the shadows, the man of magic, is Regis Camus, Piper-Heidsieck's master winemaker.

Pirie are devoted to the artisanal élevage of fine Tasmanian Sparkling. Parcels of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier are assembled around a reserve of aged vintages, the objective being to produce a consistent, full flavoured wine. Aromatically bready, toasty nots unravel over creamy autolysis characters from ageing on sedimentery yeast lees, all balanced by the crispness of apple and tangy citrus curd. True Method traditionelle in the fashion of the old world's most illustrious estates, followed by a minimum of eighteen months on lees before disgorging.

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As Australia's first PhD in viticulture, founder of Pipers Brook Vineyard and Pirie Estate, recipient of the Australia Medal for his services to Tasmanian tourism and wine, Andrew Pirie's contribution to the industry is almost without peer. Pirie Sparkling is the latest instalment of a project that began with the inaugural launch in 1995, it was received with immense international acclaim. Matthew Jukes declared it the greatest sparkling wine ever produced outside of Champagne! Pirie endures as one of the nation's most pre eminent, luxury level effervescent wines, its vigorous mousse persisting on a fine mineral finish.

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Pol Roger et Cie are one of the few remaining Maison du Champagne, still in the hands of the establishing family. To this day, Roger et fils take personal charge in the selection of Cru and the handling of Cuvees. Pol Roger Vintage Brut is one of Champagne's great wines, a cépage of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, splendid upon release after several years of age in own bottle under the estate Chais at Epernay. Soft, with a deep palate and extrordinary perfume, a wine of breeding, complexity and finesse.

$43999each $5279DOZEN EACH DOZEN Amongst the Pol Roger assets are many miles of subterranean chalk caves and two hundred acres of vineyards. Roger also retain some of Epernay's finest growers to meet the international demand. Roger's caves include a sub cellar which maintains a constant 9.5C. This variance of a single degree lower to the upper stratum of caves slows the second fermentation, encouraging a finer mousse. Complex aromas that typify this style of wine result from a painstaking process of storage and agitation in a unique cellaring tradition. Cuvee Vintage Brut is allowed to slowly and quietly mature, treated to an extended rest within it's own bottle, upon it's own sediment, before degorgement et doseage.

Golden hues, expansive mousse. Brioche and butter notes, autolysis and yeast, baguette and fresh roast nuts. Textural mouthfeel leaps onto the tongue, an immense palate, primarily of white cherries and apple, reined in by brilliant acids in perfect balance. Engagingly flavourful and highly elegant, savour Pol Roger as the refined effervescence and ebulient sparkle indulges all five senses.

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Pol Roger is remembered by local Champenois for his resistance against the German army. The grateful townsfolk continued to re elect Roger as mayor until 1935, when they bestowed the honour upon him for life. It was the Champagne of Winston Churchill, who as everybody knows, was satisfied only by the best. Finished without the traditional liqueur expedition dosage, Extra Brut articulates the perfect balance between the holy trinity of grapes, to speak eloquently of the refined balance between Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier.

$17999each $2159DOZEN EACH DOZEN Established 1849, Champagne Pol Roger remains family owned and proudly independent to this day. Pol Roger was born in 1831, the son of a lawyer. He chose not to follow in his father's footsteps, but received his support when he showed a determined interest in the wine trade. His sales for the first six months of operation were 3,769 bottles and 825 half-bottles. That has grown to around 1½ million per annum. Although Pol Roger started business without a vineyard of his own, Pol Roger currently owns 55 hectares, largely in and around Épernay. The history and spirit of the company mirrors that of the family who bear the same name. A respect for nature, a devotion to quality and of course, le joie de vivre.

Deep gold, lustrous, fine, luxurious mousse. Brimming with the trademark Pinot Meunier flowery fruit, Pinot Noir follows closely behind with mineral characters, cherry and apple. Light bready notes, a more stable nose and palate than a vintage Roger, but with less sweetness. A wonderful bead of lovely white fruits persists, light and tangy, yet rich and yeasty. The sharp acidity, the firm mousse, the floridness and cherry fruit combine to serve and to ingratiate.

The definitive Pol Roger styling, dominated by Pinot Noir from the villages of Montagne de Reims, the choicest parcels are set aside for their excellence. The lightness and elegance of Chardonnay from the town of Epernay itself and Cote des Blancs, perfection in pink, the noble House of Pol Roger will never release Vintage Rosé until it is aged at least seven years under the Roger cellars. The very fine and persistent mousse for which Pol Roger is renown, owes much to these deep, dark, damp and cool temperature cellars.

$26999each $3239DOZEN EACH DOZEN Pol Roger are one of the few remaining great family owned Champagne houses. As one of the smaller estates, Champagne Pol Roger own eighty seven hectares of vineyards on prime sites in the Vallee d'Epernay and the Cote des Blancs, drawing the remainder of their supplies from individual growers, many of whom have supplied Pol Roger for generations. The estate cellars, extending seven kilometers, lie on three levels in the chalk below the streets of Epernay and are among the deepest and coolest cellars in the region. These seemingly extravagant resources contribute to the slow maturation and creation of fine, persistent bubbles which are the hallmark of Pol Roger.