Royale Réserve Brut is the purest expression of the House’s style. Offering a superb balance between structure, persistence and vinosity, this cuvée reveals the essential character of the Mareuil-sur-Ay terroir (where mainly Pinot Noir grapes are grown, which is predominant in the blend). After three years aging on lees, Royale Réserve Brut is pleasantly mature while losing nothing of its freshness, making it an ideal aperitif wine. Its vinosity enhances white meat, charcuterie and fish.

Royale Réserve Non Dosé expresses the quality of the House’s non-vintage blends without artifice. The total absence of sugar in this cuvée reveals all the qualities which are characteristic of this wine and offers a subtle combination of aromatic precision (citrus notes, orange zest), minerality and vinosity. This is a wonderfully fresh aperitif wine which is also a perfect match for raw fish and seafood and enhances Japanese cuisine.

Light in colour and packed with intense flavour, this is a fresh and elegant wine. In keeping with the House style, Royale Réserve Rosé is distinctive for its delicate bouquet of complex, fruit-filled aromas. In the mouth the attack is precise, with hints of spice enhanced by notes of fruit. This elegant Rosé is perfect as an aperitif and goes marvellously well with smoked meats and fish, charcuterie and desserts made with red summer berries.

The Blanc de Noirs Brut cuvée, an ambitious blend from the great Pinot Noir terroirs of Ay and Mareuil-sur-Ay, is crafted only in very fine years and is the result of a careful selection of the year’s best wines. Full-bodied and powerful, this cuvée is nonetheless overflowing with elegance and freshness. It can be enjoyed equally on its own or as an accompaniment to an entire meal.

This cuvée, which formerly contained a portion of Chardonnay in the blend, was called Réserve Millésimée until the 2005 vintage.

Blended using wines from the finest chalk Chardonnay terroirs in the Champagne region, Grand Blanc stands out as a unique cuvée in Philipponnat’s range of wines, of which Pinot Noir is the signature grape. Although it has intense flavour and a creamy texture, this wine also displays the delicacy and finesse of a great Blanc de Blancs. Moderately dosed Grand Blanc is always a vintage cuvée and makes a superb aperitif Champagne for special occasions. It is an excellent choice to accompany shellfish.

A perfect complement to the House’s trilogy of vintage wines, Sublime Réserve is a dry (30 g/l) Blanc de Blancs specifically developed to accompany haute cuisine. This pure Chardonnay, blended from the finest vintage years, is distinctive for its slight acidity which gives it a certain freshness and highlights its aromas of white fruit, butter and honey. Sublime Réserve Sec is the ideal Champagne to bring out the full potential of creamy dishes and foie gras and to enhance Asian cuisine and light pastries.

The village of Ay, home to the Philipponnat family for 16 generations, is clearly recognisable in the antique engraving featured on the label of Cuvée 1522. This exceptional cuvée is blended exclusively from the House’s most outstanding vineyards and grapes, in particular the historic plots at Le Léon in Ay, which give it its body, minerality and distinctive notes of pepper and spices. This is an extra brut Champagne. With meals, it is an excellent match for salt-water fish, such as turbot, and white meat.

Complex and well-balanced, the pleasant liveliness of this rosé version of Cuvée 1522 makes it a very great rosé Champagne, at once direct and mineral, fruity and spicy. Its character is partly due to vinification in casks but above all to the slight tannins provided by Pinot Noir (vinified as a red wine) from the House’s vineyard at Mareuil-sur-Ay. It is an equally good match with lamb, red mullet or seafood thanks to its balance of minerality and fruit.

“Le Léon” plot, located between Ay and Dizy, is one of both the Champagne region’s and the House's historic terroirs; Apvril le Philipponnat owned vines there as early as 1522. Classified as a Grand Cru, it is planted exclusively to Pinots Noirs. The 2006 vintage “Le Léon” single-plot cuvée offers notes of citrus, white pepper, sweet pepper and strawberries, characteristic of the minerality of the Ay chalk terroir. This exceptional champagne is a subtle match for seafood and saltwater fish and is also a perfect accompaniment for roast meat, bellota ham and washed rind cheese.

La Rémissonne, a Premier Cru plot adjacent to the Clos des Goisses in Mareuil-sur-Ay, produces a superb cuvée crafted exclusively from Pinot Noir. An extra-brut dosage preserves its purity and perfect balance between freshness and vinosity. The 2,590 bottles of the 2009 vintage – the first harvest for this cuvée – express wonderful notes of raspberry, violet, vanilla and cocoa bean chips, with a long, rich finish. The La Rémissonne cuvée enhances game pâté and foie gras en croûte.

The "Les Cintres" plot lies at the heart of Clos des Goisses. It offers the most intense expression of this exceptional terroir: its vines, facing due south, benefit from an ideal amount of sunshine all year long. On tasting, the 2006 vintage combines notes of red fruit and raspberry eau-de-vie with hints of smokiness. Its exceptional aromatic range and wonderfully fresh finish make it the ideal champagne to accompany lobster, sea fish and white meat. Kept for a few years longer, the cuvée will also enhance stews and cheeses.