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What is Vintage Champagne?

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What is Vintage Champagne?

In Champagne, a vintage (or millésimé as you will sometimes see it denoted) refers to a wine made entirely from grapes harvested in a single year. ...

artisan champagne

From Family Roots to Independent Spark – An Introduction to Carré Frères

Édouard Carré, in close collaboration with his brother Victor, represent the new wave of terroir-focused Champenois producers. While steeped in fam...

Rooted in Chalk, Written in Law – Napoleon's Legacy on Champagne Estates

Stand on any hill in Champagne (or zoom into a satellite image of the region if you don't have time to travel) and you'll see a checkerboard of tin...

Biodynamic Champagne

Raising a Green Glass: Sustainable & Organic Champagne in 2025

Why Sustainability Is the Future The Champagne region might be famed for luxury, but behind the glamour is a fragile ecosystem, and rising temperat...

Celebrating the Women Shaping Champagne’s Future

In a region historically defined by tradition and heritage, a new generation of women winemakers are carving out a distinct path – breathing fresh ...

Your Essential 2025 Grower Champagne Buying Guide

Trends, Producers & Must-Try Bottles... 1. The Growth of Growers Over the past decade, interest in Grower Champagne – that is, Champagne gro...

Coteaux Champenois

The Rise of Coteaux Champenois – A window into Champagne’s Still-Wine Heritage

Long before Champagne became synonymous with sparkling wine, the region made still wine like everywhere else in France. It was a quirk of the cool ...

A Short History of Cépages Oubliés

Prestigious wine growing regions from across the world have their own set of regulations that vignerons must abide by; Champagne is no exception. F...

2024 Harvest Report – Peter Crawford

I have recently returned from a week in Champagne during the primary picking period of this year’s harvest and, whilst these wines will not be rea...

A brief history of the Côte des Bar

Isolated from the remainder of the appellation, the Côte des Bar – which falls in the larger ‘Aube’ region of Champagne – is around 100 miles south...

Domaine des Tuileries – the next big side project?

Champagne Alexis, Gaspard Brochet, Famille Delouvin, Remy Lequeux-Mercier. Aside from being great winemakers, what else do they have in common? Bel...

Single parcel

What is a ‘Lieu-Dit’ or Single-Vineyard Champagne?

For most of its life, Champagne has just been ‘Champagne’. Specifically, where the bottle in your hand actually comes from within the strictly-deli...

How to Identify Champagne Faults

The last thing anybody expects from a bottle of Champagne is a fault, but there’s nothing stopping even the most illustrious sparkling wines from d...

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