Gifting champagne for a significant Anniversary? Wedding anniversary coming up? Gifting or enjoying a bottle of vintage champagne with the same year as your special occasion adds a nice touch. 2025 is another of the great years for birthday and anniversary gifting. See below for our top recommendations from some of this years classic celebratory vintages.
Champagne to Celebrate a 10th Anniversary – Vintage 2015
With a lot of champagne houses releasing 2015 vintages, we couldn’t leave it out. Plus, if you’re having a 10th anniversary or attending someone else’s… you have to drink something, right?! A bottle of vintage 2015 is also a must-have if you’re celebrating a decade of marriage this year. Although most releases have only occurred in the last year or two, 2015 is shaping nicely as a vintage. The 2015 vintage has a lot of common denominators with the 2003 vintage but the 2015s are showing a better balance of weight and freshness.
Palmer & Co Grands Terroirs 2015
Grands Terroirs is a combination of the prestigious Premiers and Grands Crus vineyards of the Montagne de Reims and the remarkable savoir-faire of Palmer & Co, in a year of extraordinary weather conditions.
Veuve Clicquot Vintage 2015
The dominance of Pinot Noir and touch of Chardonnay deliver structure and character, trademark of the Veuve Clicquot’s style.
Louis Roederer Brut Nature 2015
Produced solely from vineyards located on the Cumières terroir, more clay influenced, the Pinot Noir & Chardonnay grapes have intense vinosity and exceptional maturity that no dosage is added to this cuvée. The champagne is also at a lower pressure of 4 atmospheres of pressure when typically most champagnes are at 6 atmospheres, this lighter fizz is all part of the techniques used by Chef de Cave Jean-Baptiste Lacaillon to broaden the texture and soften the acidity.
Leclerc Briant Abyss Brut Zero 2015
A real unique bottle with Leclerc Briant renown winemaking pioneers. The fourth release based on wines from the 2015 harvest, blended and bottled in June 2016, disgorged in March 2019 and then off to Brittany in June 2019 where it spends just over 12 months 60 meters under the sea before being retrieved in Autumn 2020. A must taste experience.
Pierre Peters Les Montjolys Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru 2015
Les Montjolys single-vineyard cuvee comes from seven parcels within the only site in Le Mesnil-Sur-Oger where argile a silex is found. The deep clay soils give Les Montjolys its richer, smokier character and more rounded, creamy texture. A fuller style than the well known Chetillons vineyard.
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Champagne to Celebrate a 20th Anniversary – Vintage 2005
Reaching the end of your teens is a milestone worthy of celebration and champagne from 2005 is a tipple worth celebrating with. The 2005 vintage was a warm weather year without complications. An early heatwave in June encouraged flowering, followed by moderate rainfall throughout summer and another heatwave in early September. Now 20 years of age, these champagnes are starting to showcase some stunning characteristics.
Charles Heidsieck Rose Millesime 2005
One of the most awarded vintage rosé champagnes in the world, Charles Heidsieck Rosé Millésime spends a minimum of eight years ageing on the lees in two-thousand-year-old chalk cellars. It is made from a selection of around fifteen Crus throughout Champagne.
Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 2005
Taittinger Comtes de Champagne is a prestige cuvée blanc de blancs made entirely from Chardonnay grapes sourced from the best vines in the prestigious Côte des Blancs region. It is only produced when the harvest is of exceptional quality worthy of a vintage year and it is one of the very best 2005’s produced, certainly in the top three!
Louis Roederer Cristal Late Release 2005
Late release 2005 is an original disgorgement and kept in the cellars in Reims to age longer post disgorgement before release.
Billecart-Salmon Le Clos Saint-Hilaire 2005
This single vineyard cuvée has an incredible typicity with strength and elegance which will last for decades to come. For each vintage there is between 3,500 and 6,500 bottles released, all individually numbered.
Dom Pérignon Rosé 2005
The famous House have produced an outstanding vintage rosé from a difficult season.
Louis Roederer Cristal Rose Late Release 2005
Produced only in the very best years, Cristal Rosé is Louis Roederer’s rarest champagne. Cristal Rosé 2005 Late Release was aged on its lees for 7 years before being matured for a further 8 years in Reims after its disgorgement, hence this is the second time this has been released it original release in 2013.
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Champagne to Celebrate a 25th Anniversary – Vintage 2000
Spring 2000 was rainy in April, followed by changeable weather in May. July was wet with few sunny spells and the summer was sprinkled with hail storms until the end of August. Maturation was eventually attained thanks to fine weather in September.
Laurent-Perrier Vintage Reserve Recently Disgorged 2000 Magnum
Laurent-Perrier make vintages very rarely, only selecting the very best years. This makes their Brut Millésimé a rare and outstanding champagne that expresses clearly the specific character of each vintage in the Laurent-Perrier style. The release of a trio of vintages, ’97, ’99 and 2000 is is the first time vintage magnums have been released as “recent disgorgements” with 20+ years on the lees, giving them amazing texture and fruit expression, yet because of the recent disgorgements, they are super fresh.
Krug 2000
Rich, precise and indulgent in the mouth, this vintage brings together the complexity and the generosity of a very exciting year. Krug 2000 is one of the most intense, dramatic and romantic Krug vintages ever made. It also has a very high ageing potential.
Dom Perignon P2 2000
The first release (P1) comes approximately 8 years after the harvest and is the style that most consumers are familiar with. The second stage (P2) takes roughly 15 years, during which time the cuvée takes a profound leap to a new quality level where it will plateau for many years in terms of improvement.
Henriot 2000 Jeroboam
Henriot has devoted all its talent to creating the most superb wines from grapes carefully selected from the great terroirs on the Montagne de Reims and the Côte des Blancs. Bigger the better; a very impressive bottle size, this Jeroboam is great value.
Louis Roederer Cristal Rosé Vinothèque 2000
This Cristal Rosé Vinothèque demonstrates the effect of extended lees ageing, it has a slightly deeper colour than most vintages. It offers a mature wine’s complexity on the ripe fruity, spicy nose with blood orange, dried apricot, honey and black tea. Full-bodied, vinous and silky on the round palate with calmly bubbling mousse and long, pronounced aftertaste. 95/100 Essi Avellan.
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Celebrate a 50th Anniversary – Vintage 1975
Lanson Vintage Collection 1975
These magnums of 1975 are exceedingly rare and were shipped to us from Lanson in autumn 2023. At this age the bottles will have expected low pressure, with just a very light spritz.
Taylor’s Golden Age 50 Year Old Tawny Port
After half a century in cask, this exceptional wine has reached its ‘Golden Age’ of maturity, the point at which it achieves perfect balance, a magical complexity and a seductive smoothness and density. Taylor’s Golden Age Very Old Tawny is the perfect wine with which to commemorate a half century. Mature, with dark chocolate nuances, this is rich, deep and sensationally delicious.
The elegantly presented Abyss Brut Zero comes complete with (genuine) barnacles!
