Les Fucking Bubbles

Grower Champagne Club

There are few things I love as much as great Champagne. When given the option, I’ll open a bottle of bubbles before just about anything else. Unfortunately, most of the best bottles never make it stateside. What started as a quest to find the best bottles of my favorite wine has culminated into one of the most exceptional portfolios of Grower Champagne available.

Working with a group of like-minded vintners in France, Mario (Caldwell Estate Manager) and I have the opportunity to taste hundreds of wines side-by-side each year to assess texture, structure, and overall balance to find the wines that truly light us up.

Whether it’s a rare vintage bottling of Extra Brut or a Grand Cru Rosé, we look for absolute integration on the palate and the absence of any sharpness, from the first sip to the finish. Because Mario and I have different preferences, this portfolio offers a window into the vast breadth and depth of character of Grower-Producer Champagne. The whole lineup is a wow. 

Things that make you go Mmmm…

  • Membership includes a twice-yearly allocation of Premier Cru, Grand Cru, and rare vintage selections.
  • Available in 12-, 6-, or 3-bottle shipments. We built this club the way we’d want it, so your membership can be further customized with a preference for All Rosé or No Rosé in your shipment.
  • Many of these wines are once-in-a-lifetime bottlings or special vintage releases, which means they’ll be replaced rather than reordered. The club evolves organically from year to year, offering new discoveries with each release.

Why Grower Champagne?

Récoltant-Manipulant, or Grower-Producer Champagne is an official term that identifies a wine that, like Caldwell, is made by a single family from a single vineyard estate. With more than 16,000 of these chateaus, crafting tiny quantities, most of these wines never make it to the States.

For generations, families in Champagne farmed their prized vineyards and then sold fruit to the big houses who blended wine from across the region to achieve a consistent commercial style. This began to shift in the 1980s, when producers like Anselme Selosse, known as the godfather of the grower movement, started bottling their own wines.

From vineyards often passed down through generations, these Champagnes offer a deeply authentic sense of place in a particular vintage. The cultural trend favors low dosage, which showcases the beautifully nuanced and individual character of these wines.

Get Tickled by the Benefits

  • Priority access to our Champagne Brunch (held twice annually)
  • Access to the Tsar Nicoulai caviar experience
  • First access to Lehmann glassware at winery cost (drop shipping in progress; pending confirmation)
  • Champagne Caldwell Style: available upon request, including Caldwell curated travel recommendations for the Champagne region in France

Choose Your Membership Experience

Discover our Grower Champagnes.

Collector's Selection

It's the perfect starting point for anyone undecided on which curated tier best suits their palate. It includes one bottle each of the current collection, never to exceed 12 bottles. Because many are produced in extremely small quantities, selections evolve as cuvées sell through. Price subject to change.

Current Collection

NV Brut Blanc de Blancs — $115
NV Brut Premier Cru — $129
2014 Brut Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru — $155
2011 Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru — $290
NV Extra Brut Rosé Premier Cru — $135
NV Brut Rosé Grand Cru — $175
2018 Brut Nature Rosé de Meunier — $185

Collector's Selection

Club Membership

For collectors and champagne lovers who want to experience it all, you will receive one bottle of every current-release Joy Caldwell Champagne, shipped twice per year.

Total per shipment $1,225

Collector's Selection

One-Time Sampler

Not sure where to start? The Sampler Collection puts one bottle of every current-release Joy Caldwell Champagne in your hands — no membership required.

One-time total $1,225

Curated Club Tiers

Choose your experience: 3, 6, or 12 bottles per shipment, twice a year.

The Classique

Each Shipment Includes:

NV Brut Blanc de Blancs $115

NV Brut Rosé Grand Cru  $175

2011 Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs Grand Cru $290

Cost per 3-btl shipment $580
Cost per 6-btl shipment $1,160
Cost per 12-btl shipment $2,320

No Rosé

Each Shipment Includes:
NV Brut Blanc de Blancs $115
2014 Brut Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru (Vintage) $155
NV Brut Premier Cru $129

Cost per 3-btl shipment $399
Cost per 6-btl shipment $798
Cost per 12-btl shipment $1,596

All Rosé

Each Shipment Includes:

NV Extra Brut Rosé Premier Cru $135
NV Brut Rosé Grand Cru $175
2018 Brut Nature Rosé de Meunier $185

Cost per 3-btl shipment $495
Cost per 6-btl shipment $990
Cost per 12-btl shipment $1,980

The Case for Your Favorite Champagne

When a bottle finds its way to your heart, members may order a half or full case of a single cuvée.

Half Case

6 bottles per shipment. Shipped twice per year. 12 bottles total.

Full Case

12 bottles per shipment. Shipped twice per year. 24 bottles total.

Pricing varies by producer selection and vintage. Selections are often limited and may not be replicated once sold through. Tax and shipping excluded.

The Collection

Joy Caldwell’s Grower Champagne Portfolio

Blanc de Blancs & Brut

$115

NV Brut Blanc de Blancs

Chardonnay

A brilliant bottle of bubbles… the purity and quality of this wine are evident at first sight. Teeming with tiny bubbles that meld into a delicious creamy mousse, it’s packed with minerals and the freshness of ripe lime and pink grapefruit, and balanced beautifully by sophisticated notes of fresh hazelnuts and pastry. There’s simply everything to love about this wine, including its price point.

Dosage: 9g/l Côte de Sézanne
$129

NV Brut "Véronèse" Premier Cru

50% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir

A delicious and sophisticated seductress, this wine teases you with beguiling scents that slowly unfold into a bold, mouth-filling mousse. Springing alive in the mid-palate, it opens fully into a mind-meld of ocean air swirling with light citrus and ripe apple. The flavor experience peaks as long-lived bubbles carry all its luscious appeal through a very long and complex finish.

Dosage: 6g/l Montagne de Reims

Rosé

$135

NV Extra Brut Rosé Premier Cru

85% Chardonnay, 15% Pinot Noir

So very pretty… and an absolute standout with loads of complexity and individuality, this wine reeks of world-class vineyards, great farming and dyed-in-the-wool artisanal quality. A bouquet of English roses and a field of fresh herbs, this beauty is deliciously nuanced with white fruit and subtle exotic spices that combine to make our inner hedonist squeal with delight. The finish lingers long and is absolutely dripping with notes of honey.

Dosage: 5g/l Montagne de Reims
$175

NV Brut Rosé Grand Cru

50% Pinot Noir, 25% Pinot Meunier, 25% Chardonnay

An unmistakably balanced and sexy wine with an unbridled spirit of purity and pleasure that can only be achieved by the world’s best Grand Cru vineyards. This endlessly sensual wine has a deep-throated minerality cloaked in mouthwatering berry flavors that carries its super long, nutty finish into a true happy ending. A tight vein of acidity with low dosage gives this lush, fruit-driven wine extraordinary balance.

Dosage: 6g/l Montagne de Reims
$185

2018 Joy Caldwell Brut Nature Rosé de Meunier

Meunier

Rare and ravishing, this is a food wine of the highest order and also sexy as hell. Delicate as a dewy flower on the nose, it’s a powerhouse on the palate with loads of mouthwatering acidity indicative of its vineyards in the northern reaches of France. Creamy, supple, round and deliciously lithe for its age, it gives you the sense it will divulge the secret to happiness as it continues to evolve in the glass with each effervescent sip.

Dosage: 0g/l Vallée de la Marne

Vintage

$155

2014 Joy Caldwell Brut Blanc de Blancs Single Vineyard Premier Cru

Chardonnay

A seductive, soulful wine that showcases every bit of the exceptional character and expression of a very special, perfectly ripe vintage. Golden-hued reflections lead you toward a deliciously mouth-filling mousse sparkling with pretty notes of white flowers, candied fruit, apple cider and brioche. This exceptionally aged wine continues to unfold both on the nose and palate with each sip, which not only speaks to its provenance but its capacity to go the distance in your cellar.

Dosage: 6g/l Montagne de Reims
$290

2011 Joy Caldwell Extra Brut Blanc de Noirs "Les Épinettes" Grand Cru

Pinot Noir

This journey of a wine reveals new depth and character as it unfolds with each tantalizing sip. Its purity and provenance shine through with an incredibly clean and crisp minerality that whispers of ripe, mouthwatering acidity to underscore its impressive age. A powerful and simultaneously delicate wine, it balances a steely backbone with pure decadence and depth that will continue to develop for years to come

Dosage: 5g/l Montagne de Reims

Dessert Wine

$78

Joy Caldwell Ratafia Champenois Dessert Wine (Coming Soon)

Chardonnay

Ethereal sweetness and effortless pleasure evolve through notes of fresh almond scone and white flowers in this fortified wine. Packed full of layers of delicate flavor, we’re hard pressed to figure out how they fit 18% alcohol into something this smooth and purely delightful. Ephemeral and fresh with a hint of sweet fresh maple sap harvested from an early season Vermont sugar maple… There are few meals we wouldn’t want to end with a glass of this.

Alcohol: 18% Montagne de Reims