The Grands Crus of Champagne
The 17 villages the échelle des crus rated at 100%, all in the Marne: nine in the Montagne de Reims, six in the Côte des Blancs, two in the Vallée de la Marne. For each, the shape of the vineyards, the zone, the area and the bottles available.
- Montagne de Reims9 Grand Cru
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Montagne de Reims · Grande Montagne de ReimsNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Montagne de Reims · Grande Montagne de ReimsNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Montagne de Reims · Grande Montagne de ReimsNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Montagne de Reims · Grande Montagne de ReimsNo wines at the momentOn the map →
- Vallée de la Marne2 Grand Cru
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Vallée de la Marne · Grande Vallée de la MarneNo wines at the momentOn the map →
- Côte des Blancs6 Grand Cru
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Côte des Blancs14 winesOn the map →
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Côte des Blancs1 wineOn the map →
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Côte des Blancs1 wineOn the map →
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Côte des Blancs15 winesOn the map →
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Côte des Blancs2 winesOn the map →
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Côte des BlancsNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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The Grands Crus of Champagne
In Champagne, the Grand Cru is neither an appellation in its own right nor a parcel, as in Burgundy: it is a designation added to the Champagne appellation that belongs to a whole commune. Seventeen communes may use it, all in the Marne: nine in the Montagne de Reims (Ambonnay, Beaumont-sur-Vesle, Bouzy, Louvois, Mailly-Champagne, Puisieulx, Sillery, Verzenay and Verzy), six in the Côte des Blancs (Avize, Chouilly, Cramant, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Oger and Oiry) and two in the Vallée de la Marne (Aÿ and Tours-sur-Marne).
The title comes from the échelle des crus, the scale of grape prices that vignerons and maisons kept from 1911: the villages at 100% were the “grands crus”, and the 1952 decree turned this into a label designation. There were eleven in 1911 and seventeen from 1985, when Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Oger, Oiry, Verzy and Chouilly reached the top. Once the scale was abandoned, the 2010 appellation rules fixed the list: today “Grand Cru” guarantees that all the grapes come from these communes, and the village name may appear only if all the grapes come from there. On the Champagne Grand Cru page you will find the full history and all the bottles.
The areas on the cards are the planted hectares from the tables of the Union des Maisons de Champagne, undated totals to be read as an indication: Chouilly exceeds 500 hectares, Puisieulx does not reach 20. Each card shows the outline of the commune on the relief and opens the village page, with its history, the data on its land, its neighbors and the bottles available from STELT. On the interactive map all the Grands Crus are shown in orange on the hills.
Sources and credits: commune boundaries ADMIN EXPRESS and vineyards BD TOPO® IGN (Licence Ouverte 2.0), relief RGE ALTI® IGN; planted areas and growers from the Union des Maisons de Champagne; Grands Crus and Premiers Crus from the AOC Champagne rules; photos from Wikimedia Commons (authors and licences on each village page).