Village
Villages
A curated journal of champagne news, houses, regions, vintages, and market intelligence.
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Montagne de Reims Grand cru
Ambonnay
Grand cru village on the southern flank of the Montagne de Reims, prized for round, ripe Pinot Noir — Krug's Clos d'Ambonnay sits here.
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Côte des Blancs Grand cru
Avize
Grand cru village in the heart of the Côte des Blancs, prized for Chardonnay of cut and minerality — home to Jacques Selosse and Agrapart among others.
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champagne Grand cru
Aÿ
Historic grand cru on the Vallée de la Marne / Montagne de Reims border, the spiritual home of Champagne Pinot Noir — Bollinger, Ayala, Deutz, Henri Giraud and Gosset are all based here.
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Montagne de Reims Grand cru
Beaumont-sur-Vesle
Northern Montagne grand cru, on the gentler slopes near Sillery — a small village historically known for elegant, lifted Pinot Noir.
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Montagne de Reims Grand cru
Bouzy
Grand cru village on the southern Montagne, also famous for still red Bouzy Rouge — gives some of the most full-bodied Pinot Noir in Champagne.
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Côte des Blancs Grand cru
Chouilly
Grand cru village at the northern end of the Côte des Blancs, mainly Chardonnay but with one of the few grand-cru Pinot Noir parcels in the area.
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Côte des Blancs Grand cru
Cramant
Grand cru village on the Côte des Blancs, traditionally associated with a fuller, creamier expression of Chardonnay — historic stronghold of Perrier-Jouët and Diebolt-Vallois.
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Côte des Blancs Grand cru
Le Mesnil-sur-Oger
Grand cru village in the southern Côte des Blancs, the benchmark site for taut, age-worthy Chardonnay — Salon, Krug Clos du Mesnil and Pierre Péters all draw from here.
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Montagne de Reims Grand cru
Louvois
Small grand cru on the southern Montagne de Reims, planted almost exclusively to Pinot Noir.
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Montagne de Reims Grand cru
Mailly-Champagne
Grand cru on the northern Montagne, home to the Mailly cooperative — one of the only Champagne maisons sourcing exclusively from a single grand cru village.
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Côte des Blancs Grand cru
Oger
Grand cru village adjoining Le Mesnil-sur-Oger; gives Chardonnay a slightly riper, floral profile, often blended for finesse — Henri Giraud and Lallier-Deutz are among the buyers.
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Côte des Blancs Grand cru
Oiry
Small grand cru village in the northern Côte des Blancs, contiguous with Chouilly — almost always traded and farmed alongside its larger neighbour.
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Reims Grand cru
Verzenay
North-facing grand cru on the Montagne de Reims, producing notably structured Pinot Noir with marked acidity — Mumm and Louis Roederer are among the major holders.
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Montagne de Reims Grand cru
Verzy
Grand cru on the upper edge of the Montagne, adjacent to Verzenay; cool, north-east exposure yields tense, mineral Pinot Noir.
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Montagne de Reims Premier cru
Chigny-les-Roses
A premier cru village on the north flank of the Montagne de Reims, planted predominantly to Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier; home to Champagne Cattier and the cellars where Armand de Brignac is produced.
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Montagne de Reims Premier cru
Cumières
Premier cru village in the Vallée de la Marne, south-facing on the right bank — known for ripe Pinot Noir and Meunier and a long tradition of still red wine production.
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Vallée de la Marne Premier cru
Dizy
Premier cru village in the Vallée de la Marne, neighbouring Aÿ — Jacquesson, Bollinger and Laherte Frères hold parcels here.
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Vallée de la Marne Premier cru
Hautvillers
Premier cru village in the Vallée de la Marne, home of the Benedictine abbey where Dom Pérignon worked in the late seventeenth century — the symbolic birthplace of Champagne.
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Vallée de la Marne Premier cru
Mareuil-sur-Aÿ
Premier cru on the Vallée de la Marne, ranked very close to grand cru — home of Philipponnat's Clos des Goisses, the steep south-facing clos that defined single-vineyard Champagne.
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Côte des Bar
Bar-sur-Aube
Eastern Aube town giving its name to the broader Côte des Bar — Kimmeridgian marls, Pinot Noir-dominated, and a stronghold of the modern Champagne-grower movement.
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Côte des Bar
Bar-sur-Seine
Aube town that anchors the Côte des Bar to the west — sub-region centred on Pinot Noir, with Cédric Bouchard / Roses de Jeanne among the well-known producers nearby.
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Côte des Bar
Celles-sur-Ource
Aube village in the Côte des Bar, with steep south-facing Pinot Noir slopes — a base for several grower-producers working biodynamically.
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Vallée de la Marne
Châtillon-sur-Marne
Village in the Vallée de la Marne, on a south-facing slope above the river — birthplace of Pope Urban II, who launched the First Crusade.
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Vallée de la Marne
Damery
Village in the western Vallée de la Marne, near Épernay — Meunier-leaning slopes that supply many of the maisons of Épernay.
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Côte des Bar
Essoyes
Aube village in the Côte des Bar — known historically as the burial village of the painter Auguste Renoir, who summered there from the 1880s.
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Côte des Bar
Les Riceys
The southernmost commune of Champagne — uniquely producing all three AOCs (Champagne, Coteaux Champenois, Rosé des Riceys), the last of which is a still rosé from saignée Pinot Noir.