Champagne News
Is the Cru System a ‘Cru’cial guide to quality?
The Échelle des Crus vineyard rating system was introduced in the early to mid twentieth century to categorise individual grape producing villages “crus” in Champagne, providing them with a percentile score. The intention of the system was to ensure growers received a fair price for their grapes. However, since its inception just 17 villages have…
Grower Champagne Tours
Meet the champagne makers in the Aube and the Marne. Grower Champagne Tours offers visitors tours in Champagne and Burgundy as well as guided walks in Troyes. It was created by Jon Catt who lives in Troyes and is a qualified guide with over thirty years experience. On a Champagne tour visitors staying in Troyes…
Champagne Henri Mandois: Collection Classique
Brut Origine The harmonious blending of the 3 grape varieties (40% chardonnay/30% Pinot meunier/30% Pinot Noir) with all crus from the House puts this Cuvée Brut Origine on a new level, made from a perfect balance and remarkable quality. This Champagne also benefits from a blending of wines from 3 different years in order to…
Cuvée Carbon: The Collection
For every moment of joy and type of meal, Cuvée Carbon is perfect accompaniment, with a collection of different champagnes having each one their own character. It is only produced from Premiers and Grands Crus plots, and is the top quality in Champagne. The unique combination of carbon and exceptional wines has created the ultimate…
Deutz Cuvées: The Millésimé
Brut Millésimé: Within the family of Deutz cuvées, the Brut Millésimé has an upright character that is both powerful and elegant. The colour is bright and the bubbles are persistant. The entry is clear-cut and stylish, with the palate then showing flavours of fruit, spices and mild tobacco. It is well built and beautifully balanced….
Champagne Taittinger Nocturne Rosé
A new Taittinger cuvée that is dressed for a party. Taittinger dedicates its new glittering, luminescent Nocturne Rosé bottle to all occasions when celebrations continue into the night. Enliven magical gourmet moments… The blend Taittinger Nocturne Rosé is a “Sec” champagne composed of Chardonnay(30%) and Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier (70%). Blended from around thirty…
Piper-Heidsieck Vintage Brut 2006
From a contrasted year comes an unexpectedly elegantly charming wine. A year that first of all was marked by highly contrasted weather: after a heat wave in July, August witnessed violent storms of rain and hail. A year that offered a contrasted expression of the grapes: the Pinots Noirs were exceptionally intense and impetuous while…
Champagne Lombard & Cie: Brut
Brut Tasting A Champagne in a beautiful straw yellow colour, with golden tones. It has a vanilla nose with an abundance of fine persistent bubbles. The palate is round, fruity and balanced with notes of brioche. On what occasion? This champagne is perfect for all occasions, appetiser courses, and also at a fine meal. Winemaking…
Deutz Cuvées: The Charm
Deutz Brut Classic: The most “classical” of the Deutz cuvees is far from mundane. The three different champagne grapes (Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier) are blended in equal and unchanging proportions, ensuring perfect harmony. It’s golden colour scintillates in the glass, with a fine stream of bubbles rising gracefully to the surface. The first…