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Huré Frères Cuvée Mémoire
A wine with a quirky story, Memoire is blended using the solera method, comprising 30 reserve vintage wines and with a year’s maturation in oak barrels. This ultimate Champagne gives testimony to the years of family ‘savoir faire’. A true snapshot of the domain, this cuvee is blended from all of our ‘terroirs’, with each…
Champagne Paul Goerg
Champagne Paul Goerg has a history dating back to 1876, when Paul Goerg became Mayor of the town of Vertus, just south of Epernay. He was very proud of the vineyards in the area, and wholeheartedly engaged with the winegrowers. A few years later a number of the winegrowers created some fine Champagnes based on…
Champagne Guy Charlemagne
Champagne Guy Charlemagne is situated in the heart of the Côte des Blancs, in the small village of Mesnil sur Oger. As father to son winegrowers since 1892, Philippe Charlemagne only harvests and vinifies grapes from his own vineyards. Le Mesnil sur Oger and Oger, where the Charlemagne house owns its terroirs, are two of…
Champagne Dérouillat
Champagne Dérouillat has vineyards in the Côte des Blancs and the Vallée de la Marne where it has a strong environmental approach in producing their Champagnes. The family-owned house was founded in 1929. Today, it combines the best of tradition (traditional press) and eco-friendly modern technology (stainless tanks; disgorgement with ice) to obtain the best…
Champagne Gaudinat-Boivin
With vineyards covering just 6 hectares in the communes of Festigny, Leuvrigny and Oueilly which constitutes 4.3 hectares of Pinot Meunier, 1.10 hectares of Chardonnay and 0.60 hectares of Pinot Noir, this small House produces some beautiful cuvées. Run by Hervé and David Gaudinat, the vines are typically over 35 years old, with some over…
Piper-Heidsieck Rare Millésimé 2002
A prestigious, classical prestige cuvee from 2002 vintage – structured, full-bodied and bursting with fruit. Elaborated with a majority of Chardonnays from the Montagne de Reims region (70%) and complemented with Pinot Noir (30%) from the same region, this wine is a blend of 17 crus which matured for over seven years in the House’s…
Wearing Memories designer Kiron Barui
Kiron Barui Kiron has been a Champagne lover for many years and started to collect caps from the bottles she enjoyed with family and friends, writing on the back the date and place thus creating a unique and special memory. It took two years for Kiron and her jeweler to perfect a beautiful ring that…
London’s largest bottle of Champagne arrives in the City
Champagne-lovers are in for a treat with London’s largest bottle of bubbly taking pride of place at St Pancras International this month to mark the start of Searcys National Champagne Week (6th – 12th October). Weighing in at around 100 pounds and measuring more than 4ft tall, the enormous 30-litre bottle is also known as…
Champagne Deutz: Brut Rosé NV
The grapes are pressed using automatic and traditional Coquard basket presses, and only the first press must, cuvée, is used. The wine is fermented in small, 10,000 litre tanks, with each plot being vinified separately, at between 16 & 18 degrees centigrade for two weeks; all the wine undergoes malo-lactic fermentation. After the assemblage, the…