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Champagne Pierre Moncuit – Interview With Valérie Charpentier
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 feature on Glass of Bubbly, we speak with Valérie Charpentier, the Manager of Champagne Pierre Moncuit,…
The Champagne Widows
Or the delights of widowhood in a famous wine-growing region! While enjoying a glass of Veuve Clicquot Brut Champagne, you may wonder why the word veuve, the French word for widow, is mentioned on some Champagne labels. Well! This brings us back to the Napoleonic Code (the French Civil Code), women’s status in 19th-century France…
Champagne Rodez – Interview With Eric Rodez
The following interview was completed in French, the interview below is being shared in both the original French and translated into 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…
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…