Champagne Billecart-Salmon Le Clos Saint-Hilaire: tasting all 7 releases to date
This was my first time tasting one of Champagne Billecart-Salmon’s prestige cuvées, Clos Saint-Hilaire. It comes from a single-hectare plot
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Highlights: Champagne Taittinger Prélude Grands Crus NV France
Taittinger have 288 hectares of their own vineyards in Champagne, and supplement this with fruit they buy. They’re very well
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Champagne: the state of the industry, plus 12 memorable bottles from 2021
The good news is we will not run out of champagne. The worrisome news is that it may be harder
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Champagne Drappier, a forward-thinking house from the south of the region
Website: https://www.champagne-drappier.com/en/ Drappier are a forward-thinking, family-owned Champagne house based in Urville in the Côte des Bar, a village of
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Visiting Champagne Mumm (2): new approaches to viticulture
Mumm is one of the two Champagne houses owned by Pernod Ricard, along with Perrier-Jouët. I visited them during harvest
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Champagne Veuve Cliquot reserve wine tasting: getting geeky about fizz
This was an interesting tasting of reserve wines from Veuve Clicquot. La Grand Dame Vintage 2012 label was designed by
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Highlights: Champagne Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage 2013
This is the latest release of Moët et Chandon’s Grand Vintage, and it comes from an atypically cool year, where
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Harvest in Champagne, September 2021
I spent yesterday in the vineyards of the north-facing slopes of the Montagne-de-Reims, primarily in Verzenay, but also in Mailly,
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Highlights: Champagne Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2011
This is the new release of Taittinger’s prestige cuvée, Comtes de Champagne. Its from Grand Cru sites on the Côte
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Peter Liem on Champagne: dosage, growers versus houses, and viticulture
At the BeWine festival in Kyiv, Ukraine, Peter Liem was one of the headline speakers. He gave a thoughtful presentation
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