Editing Champagne (section)

====Prestige ''{{lang|fr|cuvée}}''====
A ''{{lang|fr|cuvée de prestige}}'' is a proprietary blended wine (usually a Champagne) that is considered to be the top of a producer's range. Famous examples include [[Louis Roederer]]'s [[Cristal (wine)|Cristal]], [[Laurent-Perrier]]'s ''{{lang|fr|Grand Siècle}}'', [[Moët & Chandon]]'s [[Dom Pérignon (wine)|Dom Pérignon]], [[Duval-Leroy]]'s ''{{lang|fr|Cuvée Femme}}'', [[Armand de Brignac]] ''Gold Brut'', and [[Pol Roger]]'s ''{{lang|fr|Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill}}''. Perhaps the first publicly available prestige ''{{lang|fr|cuvée}}'' was Moët & Chandon's Dom Pérignon, launched in 1936 with the 1921 vintage. Until then, Champagne houses produced different ''{{lang|fr|cuvées}}'' of varying quality, but a top-of-the-range wine produced to the highest standards (and priced accordingly) was a new idea. In fact, Louis Roederer had been producing Cristal since 1876, but this was strictly for the private consumption of the Russian [[tsar]]. Cristal was made publicly available with the 1945 vintage. Then came [[Taittinger]]'s ''{{lang|fr|Comtes de Champagne}}'' (first vintage 1952), and {{lang|fr|Laurent-Perrier}}'s ''{{lang|fr|Grand Siècle 'La Cuvée'}}'' in 1960, a blend of three vintages (1952, 1953, and 1955) and Perrier Jouët's ''{{lang|fr|La Belle Époque}}''. In the last three decades of the 20th century, most Champagne houses followed these with their own prestige ''{{lang|fr|cuvées}}'', often named after notable people with a link to that producer and presented in non-standard bottle shapes (following Dom Pérignon's lead with its 18th-century revival design).