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Styles

Champagne styles

A short reference for the main styles you will meet on the shelf and on wine lists.

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Styles

Brut

The default dry style of champagne — dry but not austere, and the reference point for every other category.

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Styles

Rosé

Rosé champagne is made by blending or brief maceration with red grapes. It is drier than most still rosé.

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Styles

Blanc de Blancs

Champagne made entirely from Chardonnay — precise, linear and often the longest‑lived style.

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Styles

Blanc de Noirs

White champagne made from black grapes — Pinot Noir and Meunier — richer and rounder than Blanc de Blancs.

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Styles

Vintage

Champagne from a single declared harvest, aged longer and released only in years the producer considers exceptional.

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Styles

Prestige Cuvée

A producer's top wine — often, but not always, vintage — assembled from the best parcels and aged for years.