Now in Stock | Dhondt-Grellet | 6 Bottles of Unicorn Rosé

One of the finest producers of contemporary Champagne is Adrien Dhondt. Modest in size with a mere 7-hectares, Adrien has earned his family's estate serious acclaim for a small selection of vinous, intensely characterful Champagnes.

Self-taught, Adrien's methods are informed by his own experiments and the work of vignerons he admires in Burgundy and Champagne. This means a belief in cultivating living soils, employing no synthetic products of any kind, raising the trellising to deliver bigger canopies, and only harvesting at full maturity. For both non-vintage blanc de blancs bottlings the Dhondt family incorporates 30% reserve wines taken from a perpetual blend beginning in 1986has worked with a perpetual reserve dating back to their first estate bottling in 1986.

We dug through the warehouse and found just 6 bottles of Adrien's 2015 Premier Cru Le Mont de Fer Rosé. Get'em while you can! Adrien removed the parcel in 2016, so these are some of the last bottles.

NV Dhondt-Grellet Champagne Premier Cru Les Terres Fines Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut (2022)
JD95+, WA95
"The new NV Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru Les Terres Fines is based on the 2022 vintage and was disgorged in January 2025 with a dosage of 1.5 grams per liter. A blend from Cuis and Grauves, aged in 228-liter barrels (around 25% new) and complemented by 30% wine from a perpetual reserve dating back to 1986, it soars from the glass with a bouquet of dried white flowers, lemon oil, peach, toasted bread and smoke. Full-bodied and concentrated, layered and slightly more incisive than Roc Solare of the same base, it is underpinned by racy acidity and an ample, structuring chalky extract. Adrien recalls 2022 as an easy vintage—hot and dry, without disease pressure—offering a marked stylistic contrast to the chiseled wines produced in 2021."
-Kristaps Karklins

NV Dhondt-Grellet Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Cramant (2022)
JD96, WA95+
"Harvested between September 11 and 14 and matured in wood (30% new), the latest NV Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Cramant, based on the 2022 vintage and complemented by 30% of a historical reserve, is, as ever, sourced from two lieux-dits: La Garenne (planted in 1969 and 1970), characterized by deep soils of sand and clay, and Les Longues Verges (planted in 1985), with chalkier soils but lower yields due to virused vines. Disgorged in June 2025 with a dosage of one gram per liter, the wine reveals aromas of dried flowers, orange peel, fresh hazelnut, pear and peach, mingled with toasted bread, almond paste and smoky nuances. On the palate, it is full-bodied, concentrated and deep, ample and harmonious, uniting generosity with incisiveness, laden with bright acidity and concluding with a long, chalky finish. It is another superb rendition of this consistently reliable cuvée."
-Kristaps Karklins

2020 Dhondt-Grellet Champagne Les Nogers Premier Cru Extra Brut
WA96
"Without surprise, one of the portfolio’s highlights is Dhondt’s 2020 Blanc de Blancs Cuis Les Nogers, vinified in 40% new wood and disgorged in September 2025 with a dosage of 1.5 grams per liter. The wine bursts from the glass with aromas of orange peel, peach and cedar nut, mingled with overtones of toasted bread and smoke. Full-bodied and concentrated, layered and muscular, with chalky structuring extract and vibrant acidity, it unites the plenitude of fruit harvested at full maturity with incisiveness and energy, concluding with a long, searingly sapid finish. This is another compelling Les Nogers from Adrien Dhondt, and there is little to choose between it and Le Bateau. Harvested on September 6, it presents a touch racier style than the 2019. Readers will recall that Les Nogers is sourced from two distinct altitudes and geological profiles within the same lieu-dit in Cuis, planted with massal selection Chardonnay in 1974. Both sites, facing northwest, are harvested, pressed and vinified separately."
-Kristaps Karklins

2015 Dhondt-Grellet Champagne Premier Cru Le Mont de Fer Extra Brut Rosé
WA94
"Wafting from the glass with scents of sweet red berries, mandarin, bergamot, spices and peonies, it's full-bodied, vinous and elegantly fleshy, with lively acids and a long, intensely sapid finish. This is a beautiful bottle, and I can attest to the fact that it tends to empty all too quickly. It's also something of a unicorn, as Dhondt has since ripped up this parcel with the ambition of replanting with Burgundian Pinot Noir massal selections and producing a top Côteaux Champenois."
-William Kelley

"Today, Dhondt numbers among the most exciting vignerons in the region, and readers who share the admiration for Champagne’s ongoing artisanal wine-growing movement will want to seek out a few bottles with urgency."
-William Kelley

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