Champagne News
Piper-Heidsieck Launches First Rare Rosé Champagne
Piper-Heidsieck has launched the Rare Rosé Millésime 2007 Champagne, as a counterpart to its white Rare Millésime. It is the first rosé to be produced under the Rare label. The rosé has spent eight years ageing in the cellars following a difficult year, when the grapes grew extremely early and suffered from cold weather, affecting…
Bollinger Auctioning Very Rare 102 Year Old Bottle of Champagne
Sotheby’s in New York will be auctioning a recently discovered 102-year-old bottle of Bollinger Champagne on the 19th November, which will have a starting bid price of US$10,000. The auction, ‘A Century of Champagne Bollinger’, will also include six rare lots of Bollinger Vieilles Vignes Françaises ranging from 1988 to 2002, all harvested from the…
Does the type of glass you choose effect the taste of Champagne?
Firstly I would say that outside of the glass that you are drinking the Champagne from, many other factors will have an effect on what your bubbly tastes like. I’ve tasted 1,000’s of different Champagne and sparkling wines in many varied locations, sometimes what has the biggest effect is when and where you are drinking…
The Calendar of a Complicated Vintage from Chassenay d’Arce
Chassenay d’Arce, Maison de Vignerons de la Côte des Bar, is in full swing. It is the other all important location in Champagne, where Pinot Noir reigns supreme. The start to the crush in the middle of September has provided good quality fruit. The Pinot Noir variety has achieved an average alcohol level of around…
Champagne Duval-Leroy Précieuses Parcelles
Champagne Duval-Leroy introduces its new range of parcels selections’ cuvées, Précieuses Parcelles, “the finest expression of an exceptional terroir”. While other Champagne houses may value image over hard graft, the Duval-Leroy family fights to convey a certain idea of Champagne, one that is more personal, more intimate, more exclusive, a Champagne they are proud to…
Rare Opportunity to Invest in New Champagne House
Champagne PIAFF – the first prospective major Champagne house to emerge in over 40 years – has issued an invitation for founding investors and shareholders to invest in the brand. Shares in PIAFF Group Holdings Ltd. – a newly formed UK-based group – will be made available for purchase via www.CrowdBnk.com for a limited period…
Champagne Harvest
The Harvest in the five regions of the AOC Champagne started on the 10th September, almost one week later than last year. This date is individually defined for all 320 communities and for all three grape species every year. This Champagne year will offer a high quality but maybe it is one with a smaller…
Dom Pérignon Teams up with Oscar Winner Christopher Waltz
Dom Pérignon has announced a new marketing campaign for its P2 Champagne featuring Oscar-winning actor Christopher Waltz. The new campaign called ‘Meet the Ultimate Dom Pérignon, P2 Plénitude Deuxième. Touched with plénitude’, sees Waltz capture the multitude of expressions and emotions contained within a bottle of P2. Each Dom Pérignon Plénitude has a distinct character. The…
New York Champagne Week
New York Champagne Week runs 7th-13th November, in its 4th year it will be bigger and better with more bubbly than ever. For the trade and media, there will be the Opening Celebration, the annual Champagne Cocktail Competition, pairing experiences like ‘Champagne & Caviar’ and seminar concepts like ‘Back that Glass Up’ (a comparative glassware tasting)….