Langlois Cremant de Loire Brut Reserve French Sparkling Wine

The fact we hold on this house is about time. Langlois Cremant de Loire says its house has been making sparkling wine in France's Loire Valley for more than 130 years, and that count is the house's own, not ours. The producer's own technical sheet for this Brut Reserve now settles what the name alone does not: the blend behind it. One of the stores we checked listed it as low as $25.99 in September 2026.

The house's own account traces that history to 1885, when the business that became Maison Delandes was founded in Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent; Edouard Langlois and his wife Jeanne Chateau took over that business and built the Domaine that carries the family name. Jeanne ran it alone through the losses of the First World War, and the house adopted the Cremant de Loire appellation as soon as it was officially recognized in 1975; Groupe Bollinger, the Champagne house, joined the business in 1973. Langlois's own account of its winemaking names two of the vineyard parcels behind its sparkling wines, Clos Saint-Florent in the Saumur Blanc appellation and Les Beaugrands in the Coteaux de Saumur, and describes blending in Cabernet Franc specifically to bring out additional layers in the Chenin, the same pairing this Brut Reserve is built on.

Langlois's own technical sheet for the Brut Reserve names the blend precisely: at least 58 percent Chenin Blanc, with Chardonnay and Cabernet Franc filling out the rest and 10 percent reserve wine blended in from earlier vintages. The producer states the wine spends a minimum of 24 months resting on the spent yeast before release, twice the 12-month minimum the Cremant de Loire appellation sets, and finishes with a dosage of 8 to 10 grams per litre, the range that defines a Brut style. The producer's own tasting notes describe a pale gold color with fine bubbles, aromas of white flowers such as linden and hawthorn, and a delicate, notably fresh palate, the maker's words for the finished wine.

If a long track record matters to your choice, that 130-year figure is what Langlois offers. We do not have a shopper rating for this wine, so the 130 years is a claim you weigh on its own. Across the seven stores in those same September 2026 checks, the high was $34.99.

Our call: reach for it if a fully documented Cremant de Loire recipe backs up the house's long history for you; Langlois's own technical sheet lists the exact blend, the 24 months resting on the spent yeast and the 8 to 10 gram dosage that make this a Brut style, alongside named vineyard parcels and a family history reaching back to 1885. Pass if you want the crowd's word first; no shopper rating has reached our record yet, so the producer's paperwork is carrying the case alone.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.