Sometimes you just need to splurge on expensive Champagne. These 10 selections from our executive wine editor were favorites this year and, while not cheap, are worth every penny.

In Champagne, the mainstay is non-vintage bubbles, produced by blending wine from a variety of years. All 370 houses that make sparkling wine in the region offer bottles without years on them—except ...

As climate volatility reshapes vineyards worldwide, winemakers are increasingly blending across harvests — not to blur ...

In early 2021, Bollinger’s winemakers were able to get their first taste of La Grande Année 2014, a prestige fizz that had been aging in the champagne house’s cellars since it was blended. La Grande ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen cover all things related to wine. The holiday season could also be called Champagne Season: About ...

As I’m sure you know, you have one of the very finest Champagnes in the world in your cellar. Better still, you have a bottle from a vintage to which Champagne expert Tom Stevenson, author of the ...

Just in time for the holidays, Henriot has released a collection of vintage bubbly for celebratory sipping. The family-owned Champagne house, which was founded in 1808 by Apolline Henriot, has labeled ...

We are all used to seeing vintage-dated wines from wine zones throughout the world, from Napa Valley to Bordeaux and Burgundy to Barolo and Chianti. But in Champagne, a vintage-dated wine is quite ...

Cheers to vintage finds and sips! Eighteen years ago, entrepreneur Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter founded Armand de Brignac, known for its extraordinary, high-quality Champagne prestige cuvées. And now, the ...