What is your Champagne of the year?

On this board, this seems to be the year of Champagne. Maybe it is because of Envoyer, maybe it is the excitement of all the new great growers in Champagne (reminds me of the revival of Burgundy in the 1980s and early 1990s). Don’t know. But it seems like there are more posts about Champagne than ever before this year.

So, as we are 3/4 done with the year, what is the best Champagne you have had this year.

For me, it is the 1996 Taittinger Comte de Champagne (or maybe a tie between this and the 1996 Rose Champagne by them).

08 dom
96 krug

NV André Clouet Champagne Grand Cru Rose No. 3
2008 Dom

The best one :
Champagne Bollinger RD 1996 : 18,5/20

Challengers :
Champagne Vincent Couche Sensation 1997 : 18/20
Champagne André Beaufort Ambonnay GC 1996 : 18/20
Champagne Bollinger Grande Année 2004 : 17,5/18
Champagne Bollinger Grande Année 2007 : 18/20
Champagne Dom Pérignon 1970 : 17,5/20
Champagne Couche Sensation 1997 : 18/20 (twice)
Champagne Egly Ouriet, Cuvée brut non Dosé, grand cru Ambonnay et Bouzy : 18/20

Discovery + Q/P (less than 30 euros in a wine shop) :
Champagne François Gaucher Magélie Brut rosé : 16,5/17

88 Krug

2008 Chartogne-Taillet Heurtebise

1996 Salon
1996 Duval-Leroy Femme (late release-2017 disgorgement I believe)

these have all been my top bottles
99 Salon
08 Dom
04 Dom Rose
02 Dom Rose
04 Krug

I’ve had a fair amount of fantastic Champagne this year but I don’t even have to think about this one.

2004 Vilmart Coeur du Champagne (magnum)

96 Clos des Goisses, maybe 02 Pierre Peters Chetillons

2008 Roederer Cristal…

Egly-Ouriet “Les Vignes de Vrigny”

96 Salon
08 Cristal

In order
96 Salon
08 Cristal
08 Dom Perignon
Selosse Initial

Honorable Mention
'95 Charles Heidsieck BdM
Krug Rose 21eme
'99 Salon

2014 Marie Courtin Eloquence BdB Extra Brut
2009 Cristal

Top 5 this year in order:
1996 Salon
2008 Dom
2016 Fac-simile
2004 Krug
2006 Comtes

No question…1969 DP.

Hard to pick just one so I’ll go with a perfect bottle of '73 DP and '81 Krug Collection Mag.

I have a few serious Champagne dinners scheduled before year end, so my favorite could change.

1999 Ployez-Jacquemart Champagne Liesse d’Harbonville

'64 Dom. Honorary mention to '08 Cristal to satiate the '08 hype.