IIRC the last Cuvee Creation was the 2000
That is correct. From Peter Liem:
In the 1990 vintage, René and Laurent Champs began producing a champagne called Cuvée Création, sourced from 40 year-old vines in several adjacent vineyards in Rilly: Blanches Voies, Grèves or Basses Haye Barbettes, depending on the vintage. A blend of 80 percent chardonnay and 20 percent pinot noir, the Cuvée Création used to be made with a high proportion of new barriques, but beginning in the mid-1990s Champs increasingly began to prefer using three to five year-old barrels for this cuvée. The Cuvée Création has been very successful for Vilmart, and has developed a distinctive personality that differentiates it from the estate’s other vintage wines. However, Champs has chosen to discontinue it after the 2000 vintage, with the intent of streamlining the portfolio to make it more easily comprehensible—two prestige cuvées simply feels like one too many for him.
At the top of Vilmart’s range is the Coeur de Cuvée, a single-vineyard prestige cuvée sourced from vines over 50 years old in the vineyard of Blanches Voies. This wine derives its name from being a special selection of the very heart of the cuvée—in Champagne, a 4,000 kilogram pressing yields 2,050 liters of juice in the cuvée, and Champs selects only the finest 800 liters from the middle of this pressing to make the Coeur de Cuvée. It’s fermented and aged entirely in one to three year-old barriques, and composed of 80 percent chardonnay and 20 percent pinot noir. Since the inaugural 1989 release, Champs has made the Coeur de Cuvée in every vintage except for 1994, which is a testament to the special character and quality of this site.
Thank you for the write-up.