Crémant de France
A trade-only house for méthode traditionnelle sparkling wine — hand-harvested, fermented a second time in the bottle, and drawn from across France's eight Crémant appellations. Alongside it, a short and changing list of whites and reds, chosen from the same growers.
Trade accounts by allocation · Wholesale enquiries only
A house built on careful selection
Crémant de France imports and distributes sparkling wine made under the strict conditions of French AOC law — hand-picked grapes, méthode traditionnelle, no shortcuts permitted by the decree or taken by us. We work directly with a small number of growers in each of France's Crémant-producing regions, chosen for how they farm and how they disgorge, not for how much they can supply.
Alongside the Crémant list sits a much smaller selection of still wines — a handful of whites and reds, personally tasted and chosen from the same estates. We would rather list eight bottles we can stand behind than eighty we can't.
Eight appellations, one method
Every AOC Crémant decree requires the same discipline: fruit picked by hand, a secondary fermentation in the bottle that made it, and a minimum time resting on its lees before disgorgement. What changes, region to region, is the grape and the ground.
Alsace
Pinot Blanc, Auxerrois and Pinot Gris — the largest Crémant appellation by volume, and often the most precise.
Bourgogne
Chardonnay and Pinot Noir off Burgundian limestone; structured, mineral, built to age a little.
Loire
Chenin Blanc from Anjou, Saumur and Touraine — chalky, high-acid, the classic aperitif style.
Bordeaux
Sémillon and Cabernet Franc, rarely seen outside the region — small production, harder to source.
Die
Clairette and Muscat from the Drôme valley, one of France's oldest sparkling traditions.
Jura
Chardonnay and Savagnin, carrying the region's particular oxidative character.
Limoux
Chardonnay, Chenin and Mauzac — the appellation credited with sparkling wine's earliest recorded origins.
Savoie
Jacquère and Altesse from Alpine vineyards — light, saline, distinctly high-altitude.
Crémant first. A little else, chosen the same way.
The list is deliberately short, and reviewed vintage by vintage rather than left to run on autopilot.
Crémant
The core of the list. All eight AOC regions represented where the vintage allows, hand-harvested and disgorged to order in small parcels.
The signature rangeWhites
A short, changing selection of still whites from the same growers and the same regions — never more than the vintage gives us.
Personally selectedReds
A handful of reds, chosen for structure and a clear sense of place rather than for volume.
Personally selectedWhat we won't compromise on
These aren't marketing language — they're the conditions every wine on our list has to meet before it's offered to the trade.
- 01Hand-harvested fruit onlyVendange manuelle, as the AOC decree requires — no mechanical harvesting, ever.
- 02Bottle-fermented, no exceptionsMéthode traditionnelle secondary fermentation, in the bottle it's sold in.
- 03Extended lees ageingHeld to, and often well beyond, the minimum each appellation's decree sets.
- 04Direct grower relationshipsWe buy from the estates we work with, not from négociant blends.
- 05Allocation, not inventoryWe sell what the vintage gives us. When a wine is gone, it's gone until the next disgorgement.
By allocation, to the trade
We supply restaurants, hotels, independent wine merchants and private members' clubs across the UK. Accounts are opened by application and wines are offered by allocation as each vintage is disgorged — this is not a standing-stock list.