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SPRING SUMMER Champagne & cocktaiLS MENU • VILLAGES OF • Champagne Reims Reims Montagne Montagne Vallee de Vallee de de Reims de Reims la Marnela Marne ChampillonChampillon .. .. .. .. Ay Mareuil-sur-AyAy Mareuil-sur-Ay Tours-Sur-Marne Marne Tours-Sur-Marne Marne Epernay‘ Epernay‘ Av ize Cote Avdes izeBlancs Le Mesnil-sur-Oger Cote des Blancs Le Mesnil-sur-Oger Cote de Sezanne Cote de Sezanne Marne Aube Marne Seine Aube Seine AOC Champagne Waterways Villiage AOC Champagne Seine ChampagneWaterways Region Villiage SeineAube Vineyards Champagne Region Aube Vineyards Laon Montédy Rethel Compiègne Soissons Berry-au Bac Vouziers Vers Luxenbourg • CHAMPAGNE BY ÉPERNAY MANCHESTER • Reims Forêt de La Pomelle L’Argonne Met Le Cornillet Verdun Conflans Reims .. Souain Cháteau-Thierry AY ‘ Tours-Sur-Marne The unofficial capital of Champagne, kicking off it’s celebratory Epernay Frouard paRis Meaux Bar-le-Duc heritage with countless coronations over hundreds of years... Nancy as well as more champagne producers than you can shake a Jeroboam at. Toul Vers Troyes Vitry-le-François Vers Strasbourg PALMER & CO VEUVE CLICQOUT In 1805 in an era when women Vers Belfort The best Champagne you’ve Dijon Vers were excluded from the business Romilly Vers Dijon never heard of. world, Madame Clicquot dared to assume the head of the company. Brut Réserve £7.00 £40 Railroad connections between the Champagne country and the pricipal towns of the north and north-eastof France We think she did a pretty good Rosé Réserve £8.50 £48 job and we’re sure you will too. Blanc de Noirs £55 Yellow Label Brut £11.00 £62 Blanc de Blancs £58 Rosé Brut £13.00 £74 Vintage 2009 £60 Magnum £85 LOUIS ROEDERER Family-owned and rocking an BRUNO PAILLARD impressive holding of their own high quality vineyards, Roederer have A relative newbie, it wasn’t until produced some of the most well 1981 Bruno Paillard sold his Jaguar known cuvées in Champagne. to found his Maison. He says ‘it takes three generations to create a house, Brut Premier £10.50 £60 but there some advantages starting three centuries after everyone else.’ Premier Cuvée £10.50 £60 KRUG Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru £80 Producing classic wines in a unique Vintage 2008 £75 style; Krug has a surprisingly progressive approach when it comes to it’s multi-vintage cuvées. Simply TAITTINGER put, Krug is the King of Champagnes. Grande Cuvée NV £170 Taittinger is one of the last great independent Champagne Houses owned and actively managed by the family named on the label. The family are guardians of Taittinger’s style, quality and integrity. Cuvée Brut Réserve £55 Les Folies de la Marquetterie £70 Champagne, Prosecco and English Sparkling are served by 125ml glass. • CHAMPAGNE BY ÉPERNAY MANCHESTER • Epernay‘ Our namesake and the true heart of Champagne. Some of the most well known and prestigious houses have their cellars below the Avenue de Champagne, which is one of the most beautiful streets in the world. ALFRED GRATIEN POL ROGER A top-league traditional house. Is one of The Aristocrat of Épernay and a handful of houses to make wine in oak, purveyors of pure pleasure. Rumour giving the wines a toasty complexity. has it Churchill himself drank 40,000 bottles of Pol Roger in his lifetime; Cuvée Brut Classique £8.00 £46 “Remember... it’s not just France we Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs £70 are fighting for, it’s Champagne!” Brut Réserve £9.50 £55 Pure Extra Brut £72 PERRIER-JOUËT Vintage Rosé £100 Champagne’s greatest love story. P-J has built a reputation based on Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill £180 its excellent Grand Cru chardonnay vineyards in both Avize and Cramant on the Côte des Blancs.. BESSERAT DE BELLEFON Perrier-Jouët Grand Brut £9.50 £54 An experience best described as silky, Blason Rosé £14.00 £80 Besserat produces some smooth, culinary numbers that are absolute Blanc de Blancs £85 champions with a cheeseboard. Belle Epoque Brut £145 Cuvée des moines Brut £60 Cuvée des moines Rosé £65 DOM PÉRIGNON Credited as (with a little poetic licence) Laon Montédy Rethel the founding father of champagne, the Compiègne wine here could certainly be considered Soissons Berry-au Bac Vouziers Vers Luxenbourg the ‘daddy’ of all prestige cuvées: Reims “Come quickly I am tasting the stars” Forêt de La Pomelle L’Argonne Met Brut £160 Le Cornillet Verdun Conflans .. Souain Cháteau-Thierry AY Tours-Sur-Marne ‘ Frouard paRis Meaux Bar-le-Duc Epernay Nancy Toul Vers Troyes Vitry-le-François Vers Strasbourg Vers Belfort Romilly Dijon Vers Vers Dijon Railroad connections between the Champagne country and the pricipal towns of the north and north-eastof France • CHAMPAGNE BY ÉPERNAY MANCHESTER • AY•• Champillon The smallest of Champagne’s three According to Wikipedia nothing great towns is, nonetheless, home to interesting has ever happened in some of its most well known cellars. Champillon, we disagree because the champagne is magnificent! AYALA AUTRÉAU DE CHAMPILLON Bollinger’s elegant little sister and famously the old Queen Mum’s Not your average blanc de blancs. The favourite. Now made by one of Autréau family have flourished on the champagne’s few female chefs heights of Champillon since 1670 by de cave. Low dosage makes for a producing wines with a subtle alliance champagne with laser-like focus. of tradition and modernity. Brut Majeur £50 Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru £7.50 £44 BOLLINGER The big sister and Mr Bond’s favourite. Renowned for its quality winemaking •• and full body. Absolutely fabulous. Special Cuvée £12.00 £70 Mareuil-sur-AYÿ Special Cuvée Magnum £130 This village is widely considered the best Premier Cru village in Champagne, what do you think? BILLECART-SALMON One of our favourite producers around today, their house style demands attention and focus on the integrity of the fruit, freshness and acidity. Laon Montédy Brut Réserve £11.00 £64 Rethel Compiègne Soissons Berry-au Bac Vouziers Vers Luxenbourg Demi-Sec £65 Reims Forêt de Rosé £80 La Pomelle L’Argonne Met Le Cornillet Verdun Conflans Vintage £90 .. Souain Cháteau-Thierry AY Tours-Sur-Marne ‘ Frouard paRis Meaux Bar-le-Duc Epernay Nancy Toul Vers Troyes Vitry-le-François Vers Strasbourg Vers Belfort Romilly Dijon Vers Vers Dijon Railroad connections between the Champagne country and the pricipal towns of the north and north-eastof France Laon Montédy Rethel Compiègne Soissons Berry-au Bac Vouziers • CHAMPAGNE BY ÉPERNAY MANCHESTER • Vers Luxenbourg Reims Forêt de La Pomelle L’Argonne Met Le Cornillet Tours-Sur-MarneConflans Verdun .. Souain AY Cháteau-Thierry Another Grand Cru Village. Technically the village is in the Vallée de la Marne ‘ Tou r s Frouard Epernay but the vineyards are very much a paRis Meaux -Sur- Bar-le-Duc Marne part of the terroirNancy of the Montagne de Reims:Toul all about that Pinot Noir. Vers Troyes Vitry-le-François Vers Strasbourg LAURENT-PERRIER Bernard de Nonancourt brought Vers Belfort Romilly Dijon Vers Vers Dijonthe house back from the brink after fighting in the French Resistance during WWII. His legacy lives on Railroad connections between the Champagne country and the pricipal towns of the north and north-eastof France through his daughters who manage the house today. Vive la France! Av ize La Cuvée Brut £56 Harmony Demi-Sec £10 £59 Grand Cru village in the Côte des Cuvée Rosé Brut £14 £80 Blancs. Avize supplies grapes to some of the best known houses but is also Cuvée Rosé Brut Magnum £160 home to some smaller treasures. DE SOUSA Erick de Sousa produces a cuvée of Le late ripening grapes developing a Mesnil-sur-Oger rich, pure style of wine which is only enhanced by fantastic bio-dynamic Le Mesnil-sur-Oger produces the practices, closely guarded old-vines chardonnay for some of the finest and unfiltered final bottling. and rarest Blanc de Blancs around. Brut Tradition £10 £59 DELAMOTTE Founded way back in 1760 and chardonnay’s most dedicated advocate. Delightfully elegant yet tantalisingly rich. Blanc de Blancs £65 • SPARKLING WINES BY ÉPERNAY MANCHESTER • •Sparkling Wines• Don’t feel like Champagne? These sparkling wines have been selected for their exceptional quality and are all made using traditional method techniques. SAINT-MEYLAND JOSEF CHROMY The lighter delicate cousin Josef Chromy is a true success story of Champagne. based on hard work, experience and commitment to creating Cremant de Bourgogne £20 quality wine. Since arriving in Australia as a refugee from Soviet-occupied Czechslovakia, he has been a major proponent on the Tasmanian wine scene. GRAHAM BECK Pepik Sekt Riesling £40 The master of South African sparkling wines, his focus is on Pinot Noir & Chardonnay from the Robertson & Stellenbosch regions which gives his sparkling FERRARI wines the perfect balance of fruit and minerality. In 1902 Giulio Ferrari, and his Le dream of creating a wine in Trentino Mesnil-sur-Oger Brut Rosé £32 capable of competing with the best French Champagnes was born. Maximum Brut £49 BISOL This producer is the Godfather of Prosecco production. Three COURT GARDEN generations of the family are making wine in the region, we have Is a family-run, single-estate selected their only Prosecco that vineyard in the South Downs. uses the traditional method. English sparkling is one of the rising stars in the sparkling Pas Dosé Millesimato wine category and this winery Talento Classic Method 2008 £35 is one of our favourites. Blanc de Blancs 2014 £55 • ÉPERNAY’S PLAIN & FANCY COCKTAILS • Cha mpagne CHAMPAGNE PUNCH £8.00 KISS FROM A ROSE £10.00 Palmer & Co Brut Réserve, Palmer & Co Brut Réserve, Seasonal Fruit Rose infused Cocchi Rosa, Pink Grapefruit Our punch changes on the reg; ask the gang for today’s recipe.