Luc Belaire Rare Luxe France Sparkling Wine

One region and one grape: that is Luc Belaire's answer to what this wine is. The producer says its Luxe sparkling wine is made in Burgundy, entirely from Chardonnay. The name it sells under says less. It commits only to France, and the words Rare and Luxe belong to the product's name, not to anything measured about the wine. We do not have a shopper rating for this wine.

France by itself is a wide answer. French vines grow near the Atlantic, in continental settings, along the Mediterranean and up against mountains, and no one growing season stretches across them all. A bottle marked France could come from any of those settings. The one detail pointing to a single corner of the country comes from Luc Belaire, not from the name.

Our September 2026 checks put its shelf price between $27.99 and $40.99. A question, then, for the wine aisle: if Burgundy and Chardonnay are the producer's own words for this wine, why does its name claim only France?

Luc Belaire's own site tells three different versions of what is actually in this bottle. Its homepage describes Rare Luxe as “a special winemaker's blend of French white varietals and blended with a special Chardonnay dosage”; its wine-portfolio page calls it simply “rich and creamy”; and its FAQ page describes the same cuvée as tasting of “honeyed pear and toasted almond,” while a French-language video on the producer's own history page states plainly that Rare Luxe is 100 percent Chardonnay, made in Burgundy, finished with what the producer calls “a unique dosage of liqueur added just before bottling.” The Maison itself traces to 1898 and says it is still run by the same family, now in its sixth generation; the company today is owned by Sovereign Brands, led by CEO Brett Berish, with Rick Ross serving as the brand's global ambassador rather than an owner. Luc Belaire markets itself, in its own words, as “America's number one best-selling premium sparkling wine and Champagne brand” in the $25 to $50 price tier, selling, it says, more than 10 million bottles a year across its cuvées.

Our call: this suits a shopper drawn to a big, well-marketed brand story; Luc Belaire's Burgundy-and-Chardonnay account, its six-generation family history since 1898, and its own claim to be the top-selling premium sparkling wine in its price tier are all real, stated reasons. Pass if you want the producer's own copy to agree with itself first; Luc Belaire's site describes this exact wine three different ways across three of its own pages, and we have no shopper rating to settle the question either way.

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