What Restaurants Charge for Champagne

On a London restaurant wine list in 2026, a bottle of Krug Grande Cuvée typically costs £395–£500, with a median of £420. Dom Pérignon typically costs £345–£500 (median £395), and Louis Roederer Cristal £490–£660 (median £550). The non-vintage house blends (Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve, Louis Roederer Collection, Bollinger Special Cuvée and Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé) usually cost £110–£200.

These figures come from the wine lists ELID tracks, not from producer price lists or estimates. Each list price below comes from a restaurant's current wine list, linked to the wine's ELID record. Medians are given with the middle half of prices (the interquartile range), so one trophy listing cannot skew the result. The method and its limits are set out at the end.

London: Champagne prices on restaurant lists

London has the most data: between 27 and 53 current lists for each of the 12 Champagnes. Prices are per 750 ml bottle in pounds sterling, ordered from the most to the least expensive median.

The table splits into three price bands:

• Non-vintage house blends: Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve, Louis Roederer Collection, Bollinger Special Cuvée and Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Rosé. Typical prices are £110–£200.
• Ruinart Blanc de Blancs, at around £190. It is non-vintage, but its median is about £25 above the dearest house blend's.
• Prestige cuvées: Bollinger La Grande Année, Laurent-Perrier Grand Siècle, Dom Pérignon, Krug Grande Cuvée, Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs, Pol Roger Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill and Louis Roederer Cristal. Typical prices run from about £250 to £660.

The top of each range is set by older bottles. The most expensive London listings were £3,950 for Pol Roger Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill 1986, £4,120 for Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 1979 and £5,000 for Dom Pérignon 1966. All were mature vintages, not current releases.

New York: Champagne prices on restaurant lists

Fewer New York lists carry each wine. Only Champagnes on at least 6 current lists are shown. Prices are per bottle in US dollars, before tax and tip.

Sydney: Champagne prices on restaurant lists

Fewer Sydney lists carry each wine. Only Champagnes on at least 6 current lists are shown. Prices are per bottle in Australian dollars. Restaurant prices in Australia include GST.

There is less data for other cities. In Melbourne, Louis Roederer Collection has a median of A$242 across 6 lists.

Is Krug more expensive than Dom Pérignon at restaurants?

It depends on the city. In London, Krug Grande Cuvée's median (£420) is above Dom Pérignon's (£395). In New York, Dom Pérignon's median ($580) is above Krug Grande Cuvée's ($508). Both wines sit below Cristal in every city where all three have enough listings.

The two wines are not like for like. Dom Pérignon is a vintage Champagne. Krug Grande Cuvée is a multi-vintage blend sold by numbered édition. See Krug Grande Cuvée éditions for the base year and composition of each édition.

Which vintage will you be offered?

The vintage Champagnes in this comparison are listed in a few current vintages. These were the most common vintages on the restaurant lists ELID matches, counted by list entry:

Each wine page has technical details for every vintage ELID documents, including dosage, blend and disgorgement where published.

For Krug Grande Cuvée, the édition on the list matters more than a year. The éditions most often named on restaurant lists are the 172ème (23 restaurants), 171ème (19) and 173ème (12). Some lists still offer éditions as old as the 159ème.

The most-listed prestige Champagnes

Across the 422 restaurant wine lists ELID matches to wine identities, in every city it covers, these 12 Champagnes appear on the following number of lists:

The houses' full portfolios are on their producer pages: FR-KRUG, FR-DOMP, FR-LORO, FR-RUIN, FR-BOLL, FR-TAIT, FR-POLR, FR-LAPE and FR-CHHE. The wider region is at FR-CMP.

How these prices were calculated

• Source. Restaurant wine lists in ELID's database, as of 18 October 2026. A list counts only if it was captured within the previous 12 months. Each entry counts only if it is linked to the wine's ELID record with the same confidence threshold ELID's restaurant pages use. Entries naming a different bottling are excluded, for example a rosé, Plénitude, Clos or late-release version.
• One price per restaurant. Only 750 ml bottles count. Where a restaurant lists several vintages or éditions of the same wine, the cheapest bottle is used. Implausibly low "bottle" entries, usually glass prices recorded without a size, are removed. A city appears in a table only when at least 6 restaurants list the wine.
• Median and typical range. The median is the middle restaurant price. The typical range is the 25th to 75th percentile.
• Taxes and service. UK and Australian list prices include VAT and GST. US list prices exclude sales tax and gratuity. Discretionary service charges are excluded everywhere.
• Not offers. These are list prices at the time each list was captured. They are not current offers, and lists change frequently. Do not compare figures across currencies without accounting for tax and market differences.

Individual restaurant lists, with dates and sources, are on the restaurant wine lists pages.