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The Society's Champagne Brut NV
Champagne from France - Champagne
For an all-purpose foodie Champagne, we recommend this house favourite! The house style of Alfred Gratien, providers of Society bubbles for over a century, is influenced by longer fermentation, oak ageing and bottle maturity, and the resultant rich, rounded flavours make it a glorious accompaniment to all manner of courses and cuisines. A Decanter World Wine Awards silver medal winner and an International Wine Challenge bronze medal winner in 2021.
Price:
£34.00
Bottle
Original price:
£204.00
Sale price:
£170.00
Case of 6
In Stock
Price History
Price History
Date | Bottle | Case of 6 |
---|---|---|
11/08/21 | £34.00 | £170.00 |
15/11/21 | £34.00 | £204.00 |
08/02/22 | £34.00 | £170.00 |
Code: CH331
Wine characteristics
- Champagne
- 1 - Bone dry
- Pinot Noir Meunier Chardonnay
- 75cl
- Within three years of purchase
- 12.5% Alcohol
- oak used but not v. noticeable
- Champagne cork

Champagne Alfred Gratien
The Wine Society first started working with Gratien in 1906, making it one of our oldest suppliers. To mark the 100th anniversary of our business relations in 2006 we launched a centenary cuvée which was a resounding success with members.
Based in the heart of Epernay, Gratien has deservedly earned its place as a top Champagne house over the years and its approach is very much quality-driven. Indeed its owner, Alfred Gratien used to compare his Champagne to haute couture. For much of this time, the company was family-owned but then was sold to the German sparkling wine specialist, Henkell & Söhnlein, who immediately began to use their extensive wealth to good effect, making essential repairs, buying vineyards and allowing for modest expansion, without in any way challenging Gratien’s devotion to the old methods of making great Champagne.
These include fermentation in small oak casks, which are bought second-hand from the Chablisienne cooperative in Chablis. Each cru is vinified apart and such is Gratien’s reputation that they are able to buy grapes from top producers and from choice grand and premier cru villages. Though ownership has changed, the cellar master has not: indeed, this all-important job has been in the same family for four generations. Nicolas Jaeger, the present cellar master is very much in charge, though his father is still influential in perpetuating relations with grape suppliers.
The Jaeger family comes from the small village of Reuil in the Marne...
Decanter
Read moreThis own-label Champagne is made for The Wine Society by Alfred Gratien, and it impresses with its depth, nuttiness and rich toastiness. Oak-fermented for a period of six months, it spends five years in...
Platinum
Read moreIt's made by Alfred Gratien, an exemplary small house that, astonishingly, has supplied The Wine Society for more than 100 years and distinguishes itself, like Krug and only a handful of others, by...
JancisRobinson.com
Rich, toasty nose. Biscuit-like richness. Intense, super-fresh and with great balance. Fills the mouth but not an ounce of fat. Long, too. Good value. 16.5/20
decanter.com
Read moreThis own-label Champagne, made for the Wine Society by Alfred Gratien, has been described by one wine critic as 'a poor man's (or woman's) Krug'. It certainly impresses with its depth, nuttiness and rich...
The Sunday Telegraph
Read moreA “private cuvée” created by the champagne house Alfred Gratien for The Wine Society and a beautifully balanced drop, rich gold in hue, crisp but with a light spoonful of vanilla ice...
Sunday Telegraph
Read moreA "private cuvée" created by the Champagne house Alfred Gratien for The Wine Society and a beautifully balanced drop, rich gold in hue, crisp but with a light spoonful of vanilla ice cream along...
Platinum
Most often, I serve The Society's Champagne Brut, a sort of poor man's, or poor woman's, Krug.
midweekwines.co.uk
Read moreBest Champagne, People's Choice Drinks Awards: With noteworthy earlyexuberance, [this Champagne] impressed the judges with the excellent way itszesty grapefruit acidity combines with the red apple...
Portsmouth News
Read moreVery handily available in half-bottles. Made for The Wine Society by the highly regarded producer, Alfred Gratien, this is a blend of all three classic Champagne grapes. Relatively unusually, the...
midweekwines.co.uk
Read moreOK, not the cheapest champagne but one offering a delightful balance and sophistication that fully justifies paying a little more. With early exuberance and long creamy texture, The Society’s ...
Sussex Express
Read moreThe Wine Society hasbeen buying Alfred Gratien Champagne for over 100 years. Made with greatattention to detail in small oak barrels, it is aged for at least three years,giving extra depth, complexity and ...
Sunday Express
Made for The WineSociety by Alfred Gratien, here's a lively, bright, appley fizz with toastydepth and keen acidity. Very stylish and full of interest.
champagneguru.co.uk
Read moreBest value wines forChristmas and the New Year: Fermented in oak casks this wine gets a good dealmore time in bottle than many celebrated names and boasts a rich, spicy,savoury style that works both as a...
Three Wine Men
Impeccable. Asteal for the quality and lashings of personality for the price.
BBC Good Food Magazine
Read moreThis is all about bigflavours: brown apples, nuts and spicy notes. If, like me, you love BollingerChampagne but can’t afford it, this is the wine for you. The producer, AlfredGratien, is one of the...
independent.co.uk
Read moreThis is a fantasticown-label Champagne from the Wine Society, made by Alfred Gratien with hisdistinctive style: fermenting and aging his wines in oak barrels for addeddepth, concentration and nuttiness....
ft.com
I love The WineSociety and I love this rich, toasty, oak-fermented champagne, made especiallyfor them by Alfred Gratien, with whom the Wine Society has been in cahootssince 1906.