A cellar, not a shop window

Cru Céleste is a private cellar devoted to a narrow idea of Champagne: wines grown, pressed and raised by the same pair of hands. Grower Champagne from single villages, and the still wines of the region — Coteaux Champenois — that almost never leave France.

The collection is deliberately small. We would rather hold a single shelf of wines we can vouch for than a thousand references we have never tasted. Most allocations arrive a few dozen bottles at a time, directly from the growers’ cellars or from trusted European stockists, and are stored at 12 °C until they ship.