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Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame Brut Champagne

  • Sparkling
  • France
  • Champagne
  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir
  • Pinot Meunier
Tracked vintages
18
Community notes
600
Merchant offers
191

What we know about this wine

Critics
94/ 1002018 vintage
Real drinkers
91/ 100600 notes, every vintage
Market price
£169per 75 cl2018 vintage · single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
Drinking window
2023–2045drinking2015 · 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 2,589 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: French Champagne.

Body4.0 / 5
LightFull
Acidity4.4 / 5
SoftCrisp
Fizz4.3 / 5
StillSparkling
  • Ageing (non-oak) · brioche, toast, almond, nutty, hazelnut
  • Tree fruit · apple, pear, apricot, green apple, peach
  • Earth · honey, minerals, stone, chalk, smoke
  • Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, lime, orange
  • Oak · butter, caramel, vanilla, 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£77–£210Shop asks£150–£298GBP per 75 cl · 12 priced vintages

1988One 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.

Every score below is a critic score.

  • 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
2012
95 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2012
peak, window 2020–2042
Lowest price
2012
£77 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.

La Grande Dame Brut Champagne monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£100£2002018£1692015£1502012£772008£922006£992004£1731998£1351995£1291993£2981990£1491989£1561988£210

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

La Grande Dame Brut Champagne 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. 3 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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La Grande Dame Brut Champagne monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2018£16994—per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
2015£15094.3Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
2012£7795.2Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2008£9295Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2006£9994Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019
2004£17393—per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1998£13592Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
1995£12992Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017
1993£29892—per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
1990£14994.6Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017
1989£15691—per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2017
1988£21091Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2016

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