From the Ritz Paris to Champagne

The Ritz on Place Vendôme

César Ritz opened his hotel in a former private mansion on Place Vendôme in 1898. Private bathrooms were part of its appeal from the start. The Ritz went on to become a Paris address for Coco Chanel, Ernest Hemingway and Marcel Proust.

The Ritz Bar’s online listing names Barons de Rothschild Ritz Réserve Brut, a Champagne made for the Ritz partnership. Ask the bar about current availability.

A short walk away, La Table des Caves Legrand lists Coessens’s Les Sens Boisés. The Pinot Noir comes from Largillier in Ville-sur-Arce, in the Côte des Bar.

At the Ritz Bar with Barons de Rothschild

The Ritz Bar’s menu on OpenTable, checked on 7 November 2026, lists Ritz Réserve Brut by the glass and bottle. Ask the bar what it is pouring before you go. The original partnership release blended Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier. The Ritz Bar is also known for the lantern that rises above its circular bar at opening, a detail worth catching if you arrive for the start of service.

For a closer look at how Barons de Rothschild blends across villages, try Concordia Brut when you come across it. Its Chardonnay includes fruit from the Côte des Blancs and the Montagne de Reims. Its Pinot Noir sources include Mailly and Ambonnay. Those origins are documented for Concordia. Ask about the release if you want to know where the fruit in a particular bottle of Ritz Réserve was grown.

See the Ritz Bar’s Champagne listing on OpenTable.

If you like the way the Ritz Réserve comes together in the glass, tell us what you enjoyed. We can help you choose a day with time to explore a house blend and, if you wish, a wine from a named vineyard. The places you visit will depend on your interests and which producers can receive you.

A Grower Champagne in Galerie Vivienne

For another Champagne discovery nearby, visit La Table des Caves Legrand in Galerie Vivienne, with access from 4 rue des Petits-Champs. It is about a 12-minute walk, just under a kilometre from the Ritz. The table sits within a wine merchant’s shop and serves wines alongside seasonal dishes.

The restaurant’s bottle list includes Champagne Coessens Largillier Les Sens Boisés 2019. Coessens describes Les Sens Boisés as Pinot Noir drawn from its Largillier vineyard. It gives you a different scale of discovery after the hotel’s house blend. Ask the restaurant whether the listed harvest is available when you go.

View La Table des Caves Legrand’s wine list.

Follow Largillier to the Côte des Bar

Coessens’s Largillier gives you a specific vineyard to look up before you travel. The grower works this site in Ville-sur-Arce and makes several Pinot Noir Champagnes from it. The Les Sens Boisés on Legrand’s list comes from the part of the vineyard the grower calls Matière. Coessens ages this wine in oak barrels.

If you enjoyed it in Paris, the Comité Champagne’s regional guide is a starting point for exploring where it comes from. When you taste another local Pinot Noir, ask whether it comes from one site or several and how it was aged. That gives you something concrete to compare with the bottle you discovered at Legrand.

Learn about Pinot Noir in Champagne.