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VINE & BUBBLE Celebrates Double Win at the 2026 World Luxury Travel Awards
VINE & BUBBLE Celebrates Double Win at the 2026 World Luxury Travel Awards
|Sara Underdown
An international acknowledgement of our commitment to extraordinary, bespoke travel experiences in Champagne. As founder of VINE & BUBBLE, I am delighted to announce that we have been recognised with... Read more...
The Best Wellness Destinations in Champagne: Henri Giraud
The Best Wellness Destinations in Champagne: Henri Giraud
|Sara Underdown
At Manoir Henri Giraud in Aÿ, the House has taken two of Champagne's most important natural resources - chalk and oak - and incorporated them into an unconventional approach to... Read more...
First Images Released of Lanson's New Private Collection Salon
First Images Released of Lanson's New Private Collection Salon
|Sara Underdown
Launched last year, as reported in VINE & BUBBLE, the Lanson Private Collection marked a very different approach for the historic Champagne Maison, offering collectors the opportunity to establish their own... Read more...
A Name in the Chalk: An American Soldier's Story Rediscovered in Champagne
A Name in the Chalk: An American Soldier's Story Rediscovered in Champagne
|Sara Underdown
Eighty-two years after a young sergeant carved his name into the cellars of Champagne Gosset, his children have come to Épernay to meet him there. Descend the steps into a... Read more...
Champagne With Kids: How to Explore France's Famous Wine Region as a Family
Champagne With Kids: How to Explore France's Famous Wine Region as a Family
|Sara Underdown
Champagne may be celebrated for its vineyards, Maisons and exceptional wines, but what happens when you're travelling with children? From underground adventures and interactive museums to forests, amusement parks and... Read more...
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The Ultimate Three Day Guide to Visiting Champagne
|Sara Underdown.
Ah, champagne. That otherworldly wine with its hypnotic bubbles, heady aromatics and je ne sais quoi. Though the bubbles that scale the length of every glass may be the one... Read more...
The Best Wellness Destinations in Champagne: Hostellerie La Briqueterie
The Best Wellness Destinations in Champagne: Hostellerie La Briqueterie
|Sara Underdown
There is something immediately restorative about arriving at Hostellerie La Briqueterie. Perhaps it’s the sweep of four hectares of manicured gardens, or the way the property opens quietly onto the... Read more...
The Best Wellness Destinations in Champagne: Château de Sacy
The Best Wellness Destinations in Champagne: Château de Sacy
|Sara Underdown
It feels as though it has been lifted from the pages of a storybook. At the end of a long, winding road, Château de Sacy reveals itself as a romantic... Read more...
Veuve Fourny & Fils' Pathway to Perth
Veuve Fourny & Fils' Pathway to Perth
|Anja Lewis.
Anja loved the champagne from Veuve Fourny & Fils so much that she travelled to France to meet the producers and made them an offer that has since helped to... Read more...
A Champagne Lover's Guide to Paris
A Champagne Lover's Guide to Paris
|Sara Underdown.
There are more restaurants and bars in Paris than you can poke a baguette at. Take your pick from the cache of hole-in-the wall eateries to chandelier dripping high-end bars,... Read more...
Two women driving a black vintage jeep with P P plate on a sunny vineyard road
How Champagne is Becoming the Most Exciting Wine Tourism Destination in 2025 and Beyond
|Sara Underdown.
At a time when champagne sales are on the decline, and higher-end champagne availability remains relatively limited, the region’s oenotourism initiatives are the silver lining which have the ability to... Read more...
Colorful half-timbered houses with shopfronts in the historic Champagne Aube region
Champagne Wines from the Aube
|Bhatia Dheeraj.
Champagne wines from the Aube, in Champagne’s deep south, are different from those in the Marne. Soil composition, and microclimate, make for particularly good pinot noir growing conditions, with more... Read more...

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