Champagne Irroy Extra Brut NV because you always need Champagne in the fridge. This sparkling wine has a pretty cool story. Originally founded in 1820 and a member of the Grande Marques, it was purchased by Taittinger in 1955. It’s a lot smaller production than its new owner. Irroy has been allowed to focus on a small range of Champagnes that show off the uniqueness of this old house.

This Extra Brut is a blend of 35% Pinot Noir, 35% Pinot Meunier, 30% Chardonnay. It’s actually a blend of 25 different Crus too. This is important as it adds a lot of developed and mature flavours that vintage Champagne is famous for. However, as it’s in a Non-Vintage, you don’t have the price tag attached.

To clarify, non-vintage is a blend of vintages, this gives the house a little wiggle room to produce wine every year. Vintage is juice only from a particular year and needs to be a certain quality level.