What are your Top 5 Champagne Producers

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Currently sitting on 220 bottles of Champagne, including 56 from Cedric Bouchard (the majority of which were purchased pre-pandemic at far lower prices, although I do still take an annual allocation as I love these wines!).

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Thatā€™s a pretty good stash of Cedric Bouchard. Iā€™ve accumulated a decent chunk of bottles now, unfortunately -a lot after the prices escalated a bit, but oh well.

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One of my more prized assets in the collection, for sure :slight_smile:

Although as you can imagine, itā€™s a lot easier (i.e. cheaper) to stack up VV than the other cuvees. Iā€™m about 60:40 VV:other.

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511 bottles of champagne cellared (percentages as a portion of champagne)

Bouchard 38.2%
Prevost 8.0%
Ledru 5.5%
Domaine Leon 3.5%
Ulysse Collin 2.7%

(Similar to others above, was a very aggressive buyer of Bouchard from 2018-2022, havenā€™t bought a ton of new release the last two years, but backfilled some older bottles)

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Yeah that seems about right for me too, probably closer to 50/50 for me.

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Curious for those cellaring Laherte. Which did you decided to lay down / go deep on?

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  1. Jeeper
  2. Marie Courtin
  3. Franck Bonville
  4. Hugues Godme
  5. Vilmart
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  1. Selosse
  2. Bollinger
  3. Agrapart
  4. Krug
    T5. Tattinger
    T5. Ulysse Colin
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Les Grandes Crayeres. I have a nice vertical going that Iā€™ll use blind in parts for some of my group as time goes along.

And to a degree, Les Empreintes. I did the 13 and 14 side by side several months ago for the group. The 13 was outstanding. If i can find some more 16, Iā€™ll backfill it.

Most of the rest of the range I just buy and drink. The wines are fantastic.

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  1. Vilmart
  2. Mousse
  3. Egly-Ouriet
  4. Laherte Freres
  5. Cedric Bouchard
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All of them? Seriously, I have multiple vintages of each of Grandes Crayeres, Vignes dā€™Autrefois, Longues Voyes, and Beaudiers, as well as a good bit of BdB and RosĆ© de Meunier.

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  1. Agrapart
  2. Rodez
  3. Pehu Simonet
  4. Diebolt Vallois
  5. Doyard
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Mikeā€¦no Empreintes?

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Billecart-Salmon
Larmandier-Bernier
Taittinger
Diebolt-Vallois
Guy Charlemagne

is my top 5, a total of 390 bottles of Champagne in my cellars

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Way too little Champagne in my cellar and not much focus (except for the fact that almost all of it is grower) but Lilbert and Bereche are best represented.

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Just a few of the 2014. Iā€™m not really sure why, but maybe more limited allocations of it than of the others from my main source?

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What FMIII said. In addition to Crayeres and Emprientes, I have a couple of Les Longues Voyes.

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How would you describe Ledruā€™s style?

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I have a lot of champagne. The hierarchy surprised me.

  1. Krug (mostly GC)
  2. Vilmart (CdC, GCdā€™O, Emotion)
  3. Roederer (Essentially all Cristal)
  4. Taittinger (all Comtes BdB, except scant Comtes rosƩ)
  5. Egly-Ouriet

DP is a close 6th.

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  1. Bollinger (pre-70s)
  2. Krug
  3. Egly-Ouriet
  4. Ulysse Colin
  5. Chavost

Chavost is my go-to regular drinker so have a fair bit in my drinking fridge. I bought a ton of old Bollinger at auction years ago. Itā€™s lovely but not a daily drinker.