Key takeaways:
- Widest and best selection of Champagnes in the United States
- A team of Champagne buyers with decades of expertise
- Competitive pricing, with further discounts for case purchases
- For best values, join our Champagne Club, Extra Brut
- Our staff is ready to help you select the perfect Champagne
Top Source of Champagne
Walk into either of our locations – San Francisco or New York – and the first thing you will see a wall of Champagne. We love it. Our customers love it. It is just about our top selling category. When industry professionals want Champagne, or they just want to know what the cool Champagnes are, they come to us.
Yeah, we think we are the top source for Champagnes in the United States. We typically have over 200 Champagnes in our catalog, representing producers from all of Champagne’s regions and a large number of its villages. We specialize in Champagnes from Growers (producers who grow their own grapes and then produce Champagnes from them) but we also work with higher quality negociants (producers who buy at least a portion of their grapes from farmers).
We work with over 30 different suppliers of quality Champagnes, most of whom are respected importers in the United States, but our suppliers also include sources in Europe and private collectors. Our work with them includes exclusive buying opportunities, direct import opportunities, securing allocations of high–in-demand Champagnes, and tasting opportunities in our physical stores.
Great Prices
We keep our prices competitive, and most of our Champagnes can be purchased in mixed cases for a 10% discount (use coupon code 10OFF at checkout). Or, for maximum value, join our Champagne Club, Extra Brut, which you can read about here. The very best values in Champagne that we come across – usually in limited quantities – usually go to our Extra Brut members.
Expertise
A lot of expertise goes into our Champagne buying. Most stores devote just one staff person to buying Champagne – we have a whole team of four buyers! Most of us have been buying Champagne for 15-20 years or longer. Together, we have traveled to Champagne over a dozen times. Champagne producers routinely visit our stores, often to taste and talk about their wines with us, but sometimes just to do some shopping!
How do I learn about your latest Champagne offerings?
Join our email list! A lot of the more limited production Champagne we sell is purchased exclusively by newsletter members and never makes it onto our shelves or our website. We strongly recommend signing up, as it's completely free. Sign up here.