Cuvée de Prestige

Common name (also Prestige Cuvée or Cuvée Spéciale) for the top product of a champagne house. Such a champagne comes from particularly large vintages and was usually stored or matured on the yeast for many years. These brands are often up to five times more expensive than the standard products of the houses. These champagnes, often with a creative name, were often created and/or named for a famous person or specially created after a significant event. Well-known cuvée de prestige of renowned champagne companies are

• Binet - Binet Elite Rosé, Binet Elite Blanc de Noirs and Médaillon Binet Rouge
• Bollinger - Grande Année
• Canard-Duchêne - Charles VII
• Deutz - William Deutz and Amour de Deutz
• Gosset - Celebris
• Heidsieck Monopole - Diamond Blue
• Henriot - Cuvée des Enchanteleurs
• Joseph Perrier - Cuvée Royale (private label of Queen Victoria) and Josephine
• Jug - Clos du Mesnil
• Lanson - Fine Cuvée
• Laurent-Perrier - Grand Siècle
• Moët et Chandon - Dom Pérignon (in honour of Pierre Pérignon)
• Mumm - Mumm de Cramant
• Nicolas Feuillatte - Palmes d'Or Brut Vintage
• Perrier-Jouët - La Belle Époque
• Pol Roger - Sir Winston Churchill (in honour of the English politician)
• Pommery - Cuvée Louise (after the wife of the founder)
• Roederer - Cristal (created for Tsar Alexander II)
• Ruinart - Dom Ruinart
• Taittinger - Comtes de Champagne
• Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin - Grande Dame (after the legendary founder)

Products from a single and usually exclusive location are called mono-cuvée. A list of other champagne houses is included under the keyword champagne.