Keeping Christmas festive
Champagne sparkles with a thousand bubbles and remains the symbol of pleasure and good humor. We all have a bottle in reserve to mark life's milestones. The Guide Gault&Millau des Champagnes 2021 is a landmark of finds and good information.
Now's the time to top up your champagne stash and look on the bright side. Champagne, the antidote to bad moods, helps us to see the bottle as half full.
Why choose Gault&Millau?
Gault&Millau is a benchmark in tasting, and leafing through a book is a pleasure to give as a gift.
11 experts: independent journalists, master sommeliers, France's Best Sommelier 2010... these tireless, inquisitive and passionate tasters make all the difference.
The team worked hard on the selection, tasting and testing over 2000 champagnes under the strictest conditions, to select 1836 cuvées from 400 houses.
What is the guide?
- The best cuvées and vintages selected from independent winemakers to the greatest houses.
- 400 champagne houses
- 1836 champagnes reviewed by Gault&Millau experts.
- 1500 food and champagne pairings
- 70 magnums / 75 cl
- 1 Carnet de champagne covers current topics:
Magnum or bottle, which to choose?
Blending, an art specific to Champagne
Discover the map of aromas
Champagne service, details that matter
Vineyard map
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mini-lexicon for a better understanding of champagne
- Champagne is, in essence, a region of blends: crus, years, wines and colors are assembled.
- Brut sans année (or BSA) is a champagne made from a blend of grape varieties of different origins and wines of different years that have spent a minimum of 15 months in the cellar.
- Grand cru. This designation is reserved for champagnes from one of the 17 communes classified as 100% Grand Cru, which determines the price to be paid for the grapes from these communes, i.e. 100% of their quotation.
- Monocru is a champagne made from grapes from a single plot.
Discover our selection of 400 houses, 1700 champagnes commented by Gault&Millau experts.
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