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Cristal Brut Champagne (Millésimé)

  • Sparkling
  • France
  • Champagne
  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir
  • Pinot Meunier
Tracked vintages
47
Community notes
607
Merchant offers
814

What we know about this wine

Critics
98/ 1002018 vintage
Real drinkers
95/ 100607 notes, every vintage
Market price
£163per 75 cl2018 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
Drinking window
2024–2060drinking2016 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 6,734 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: French Champagne.

Body3.9 / 5
LightFull
Acidity4.4 / 5
SoftCrisp
Fizz4.2 / 5
StillSparkling
  • Tree fruit · apple, pear, green apple, peach, apricot
  • Ageing (non-oak) · brioche, toast, almond, nutty, hazelnut
  • Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, lime, orange
  • Earth · honey, minerals, stone, chalk, smoke
  • Oak · butter, vanilla, caramel, oak, pastry
  • Yeast and lees · cream, yeast, cheese, lemon curd, toasted bread

Grapes: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£142–£645Shop asks£300–£922GBP per 75 cl · 33 priced vintages

1966One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2018

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Drinkinginside its stated window
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2008
99 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2008
drinking, window 2018–2058
Lowest price
2014
£142 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Cristal Brut Champagne (Millésimé) monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£5002018£1632016£3002015£1492014£1422013£1552012£1462009£1652008£2092007£1692006£1722005£2132004£2202002£2312000£1721999£4751997£1831996£2981995£6451994£1501990£3451989£2631988£3011986£4691985£4851983£2581982£9221981£6401979£4071978£2531976£4821975£3061969£6041966£604

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Cristal Brut Champagne (Millésimé) monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 2 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Cristal Brut Champagne (Millésimé) monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2018£16398—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2016£30097.4Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
2015£14996.4Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2014£14297.6Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2013£15597.9Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2012£14697.6Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2009£16595.8Yesper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, January 2026
2008£20999.2Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2007£16995.4Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2006£17296.3Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2005£21394.3Noper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2021
2004£22096.4Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
2002£23197.5Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2000£17293.4Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017
1999£47596.2Noper 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, October 2022
1997£18393Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2017
1996£29896.5Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017
1995£64594.2Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022
1994£15090Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2015
1990£34596.6Yesper 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
1989£26396Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
1988£30194.8Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018
1986£46991.5—per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022
1985£48595.7Yesper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2025
1983£25893.5Yesper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, January 2019
1982£92296Yesper 75cl, from a 1500 ml shop ask, September 2026
1981£64094Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
1979£40797.3Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2018
1978£25393.2Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018
1976£48295Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
1975£30694Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2015
1969£60498—per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017
1966£60497—per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017

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