Champagne News
Champagne Poirot – Interview With Alain Poirot
The following interview was completed in French, the interview below is being shared in both the original French and translated in English. The love of Champagne is infinite, a language that everyone can understand, a sparkle that can shine in anyone’s glass, it can connect people, brings them together and places a smile on…
Discovering Champagne Dom Caudron
The History of Dom Caudron “In 1929, the village Abbot, Dom Caudron, donated 1 000 francs to some of the village’s vinegrowers to enable them to acquire their first press and some winemaking tools. This is how Champagne Dom Caudron was born. Meunier is our favourite grape variety, representing 80% of our vineyard. The terroir…
Champagne Fire Truck – Interview With Rich Reynolds
Travelling around the UK, serving Champagne from a converted British Fire Truck, it may sound like a dream for many, but it’s a reality for Rich Reynolds. We love the concept here at Glass of Bubbly, so we reached out and spoke directly with Rich, discovering more about the journey into his ‘lightbulb’ idea of…
TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY MEUNIER Cédric Moussé turns the Underdog Grape Into Champagne’s New Superstar
The grower Champagne movement that has built an exciting and invigorating buzz around the world over the past few decades owes its prestigious fame to a handful of bold, passionate, and pioneering vignerons (winemakers) who fearlessly broke Champagne’s deeply entrenched age-old traditions. With their unconventional experimental approach to winemaking, they have not only injected a…
Interview With The President Of Champagne Lanson – François Van Aal
The love of Champagne is infinite, a language that everyone can understand, a sparkle that can shine in anyone’s glass, it can connect people, brings them together and places a smile on faces around the world. In this exclusive article we speak with François Van Aal, the President of Champagne Lanson, let’s discover a little…
Billecart-Salmon presents the new 2012 vintage of Elisabeth Salmon 2012 and Louis Salmon 2012
Born in 1818 from the union of Elisabeth Salmon and Nicolas François Billecart, the House Billecart-Salmon was above all the coming together of two families. The Billecarts on one side, the Salmons on the other. Over the generations that followed, their successors have never ceased to pay tribute to the pioneers who laid the solid…
Book Review: Drinking Dom Pérignon – Edward Kaukoranta
It was whilst browsing Instagram that I first came past the name Edward Kaukoranta and subsequently, the book entitled ‘Drinking Dom Pérignon 1921 to 2013‘. Boldly announcing himself as Edward of Champagne, was this just another name elbowing their way into the fine wine scene, another ‘expert’ offering an opinion and publishing their own ‘Champagne’…
Touring Champagne With Raphael de Vasconcellos
Exploring the Champagne Region is one of the ‘must’ moments for any bubbly lover, but no matter how many times you travel to the region, there are still more Champagne houses and villages to explore, knowing where to start isn’t too difficult, you simply venture to the Avenue de Champagne, the world’s most expensive road…
Roederer Estate L’Ermitage Brut 2015
Louis Roederer [Road-ur-ur], a distinguished Champagne producer situated in Reims, France, traces its origins back to 1776 when it began as Dubois Père & Fils. While its early days were marked by still wine production, the focus soon evolved to embrace the art of crafting fine Champagnes. The business underwent a transformation under the stewardship…