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Champagne Special Club (3-Pack)
Sustainable Practices
32% OFF RETAIL!
What do we have here? Three bottles of rare vintage Special Club Champagne – aka, the highest classification that Grower Champagne can achieve – from three renowned producers, for more than $100 off, with free shipping? This is NOT a drill. Go, go, go!
Even if you don’t have any special occasions on the horizon, this is the deal of all deals today – over $100 in savings on three prime, high-scoring Special Club Champagnes. These wines each typically fetch $150-$185 on their own and come from historic, deep-rooted estates throughout Champagne. And they all hold exclusive memberships to the revered Club Trésors de Champagne – or Special Club – which is, in essence, part peer review, part expert analysis, all blind tasted with a rigid and exacting standard of quality as the benchmark. It is, unequivocally, the best of the best of Grower Champagne, and extremely challenging and rigorous to be accepted into.
Get a feel for what’s inside below, and then race to the cart to get your hands on one three-pack (at least!). These are crazy limited and massively overdeliver in every way. Champagne lovers are sure to be wildly satisfied when they pop these beauties open, no matter the occasion!
Champagne J. Lassalle Special Club Brut Premier Cru 2014 (usually $165 retail): J. Lassalle’s Special Club 2014 is a stunning Premier Cru expression of Champagne born of exemplary craft and terroir to form something altogether elegant, vibrant, and irresistible. Produced from estate-grown grapes in Chigny-Les-Roses, this blend of 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay weaves precision and power into a uniquely compelling Champagne. The dazzling rose-gold wine opens with a mineral-driven profile filled with a powerful medley of dates, umeboshi plums, and creamy nougat, followed by wine-braised pears, golden apples, and blanched almonds, with some exotic lime leaf and cardamom on the long and elegant finish.
Champagne Pierre Gimonnet & Fils Blanc de Blancs Special Club Cramant Grand Cru Extra Brut 2016 (usually $185 retail): Pierre Gimonnet never ceases to impress and amaze us. They consistently deliver some of the best expressions of the Côte des Blancs from their vast holdings of prized old-vine plots, easily gliding to the top of our favorite Grower Champagne houses list. The Pierre Gimonnet style is known for its unbridled and pure expression of the chalk soils of the Côte des Blancs – crunchy, intense, searingly bright, and mineral-rich. This 2016 Special Club lives up to every ounce of that reputation, and then some – 100% Chardonnay with notes of toasty brioche, flamed lemon peel, citrus oil, creamy Bartlett pear, and chalky crushed rocks.
Champagne Paul Bara Special Club Brut Grand Cru 2016 (usually $150 retail): There’s something undeniably magnetic about Paul Bara’s Special Club bottlings – each release feels like an intimate taste of the heart of Bouzy Grand Cru. Crafted only in vintages the family considers truly exceptional, the 93-point 2016 captures everything we adore about the estate’s mastery – its sumptuous fruit, sculpted structure, and a quiet confidence that only comes from generations of care. The 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay blend offers notes of white cherry, red apple skin, toasted almond, brioche rise, raspberry, blood orange, and warm spices to balance supple richness with vibrant drive.