The Premiers Crus of Champagne
The 42 Premier Cru villages of the appellation rules, rated between 90 and 99% by the échelle: all in the Marne, more than half in the Montagne de Reims. For each, the shape of the vineyards, the zone, the area and the bottles available.
- Montagne de Reims25 Premier Cru
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Montagne de Reims · Massif de Saint-ThierryNo 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 · Reims : Vesle & ArdreNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Montagne de Reims · Reims : Vesle & ArdreNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Montagne de Reims · Reims : Vesle & ArdreNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Montagne de Reims · Reims : Vesle & ArdreNo 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 · Reims : Vesle & ArdreNo 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 · Reims : Vesle & ArdreNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Montagne de Reims · Reims : Vesle & ArdreNo 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 →
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Montagne de Reims · Grande Montagne de ReimsNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Montagne de Reims · Reims : Vesle & ArdreNo 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 Marne9 Premier Cru
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Vallée de la Marne · Grande Vallée de la MarneNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Vallée de la Marne · Grande Vallée de la MarneNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Vallée de la Marne · Grande Vallée de la MarneNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Vallée de la Marne · Grande Vallée de la MarneNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Vallée de la Marne · Grande Vallée de la MarneNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Vallée de la Marne · Coteaux Sud d'ÉpernayNo wines at the momentOn the map →
- Côte des Blancs5 Premier Cru
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Côte des BlancsNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Côte des Blancs1 wineOn the map →
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Côte des Blancs2 winesOn the map →
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Côte des Blancs1 wineOn the map →
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Côte des Blancs · Val du Petit MorinNo wines at the momentOn the map →
- Val du Petit Morin3 Premier Cru
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Val du Petit MorinNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Val du Petit MorinNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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Val du Petit MorinNo wines at the momentOn the map →
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The Premiers Crus of Champagne
The Premier Cru is the second step of Champagne and, like the Grand Cru, a village title: a designation added to the appellation and granted to the communes that the échelle des crus rated from 90 to 99%. The appellation rules list forty-two, all in the Marne: twenty-five in the Montagne de Reims, from Bezannes to Vrigny; nine in the Vallée de la Marne, around Aÿ and Épernay; five in the Côte des Blancs and three in the Val du Petit Morin. On the label, “Premier Cru” appears alone or with the village name, if all the grapes come from there; the seventeen Grands Crus may also use this designation.
The scale was born in 1911 to set the price of grapes, and the 1952 decree turned the band from 90 to 100% into a label designation. The boundaries kept moving until 2003, when Coulommes-la-Montagne, Sermiers and Vrigny rose from 89 to 90%; Mareuil-sur-Aÿ and Tauxières-Mutry, at 99%, remained one step below the top. Since 2010 the appellation rules have kept the list with no price attached. On the Champagne Premier Cru page you will find the history of the classification, the villages zone by zone 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: Vertus exceeds 540 hectares, Cormontreuil does not reach 6. Each card shows the outline of the commune on the relief and opens the village page, with its history, its data, its neighbors and the bottles available from STELT. On the interactive map all the Premiers Crus are shown in gold 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).