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Streets Strewn with Champagne: Melbourne's Secret Love Affair
|Christina Kaigg.
Melbourne’s earliest days of farming and gold exploration earned many punters a fortune. What is less known is how these fortunes turned Melbourne’s streets into liquid gold. Champagne became the... Read more...
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The Best Champagnes Under $100 to Raise a Glass with this New Year's Eve
|Sara Underdown.
Champagne on New Year’s Eve may be all about the ‘pop’ and party but choose wisely and you will add even more sparkle to your special occasion – and you... Read more...
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The Best Prestige Champagnes of 2023
|Sara Underdown.
Prestige Champagne, that more illustrious tier of otherwise fine Champagne, is synonymous with the most special of special occasions. Christmas comes but once a year and there's no better reason to... Read more...
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Sara Underdown on Living Your Best Champagne Life
|Sara Underdown.
From summers in Reims sipping rare champagnes to experiencing the real side of harvest, Sara Underdown's love of champagne has given her a life to savour. Originally published in the... Read more...
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Top (Off The Beaten Track) Experiences in Champagne
|Sara Underdown.
Champagne has an ever-increasing array of visitor experiences. These suggestions will get you off the beaten track and onto a path less followed. L’Épicerie Au Bon Manger 7 rue Courmeaux,... Read more...
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Piper-Heidsieck's New Sustainably Farmed 'Essentiel Blanc de Noirs'
|Sara Underdown.
At a grand two-day reveal in Champagne, we had the first taste of Piper-Heidsieck's new sustainably farmed cuvée, Essentiel Blanc de Noirs, also the first made entirely by Émilien Boutillat,... Read more...
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Cristal Rosé: The Making of Champagne's Most Exclusive Rosé
|Sara Underdown.
Under the sweltering conditions of harvest 2022, I went behind the scenes of Champagne’s most exclusive rosé champagne with Louis Roederer’s chef de caves, Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon. Two days of picking,... 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...
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Where to Drink Champagne in Australia
|Sara Underdown.
Take a note from our extensive book on the very best places to enjoy champagne this Global Champagne Day (28 October) in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth.   Sydney... Read more...
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Benoît Déhu: Meunier Emergence
|Matthew Lamb.
On the outskirts of Champagne, in Fossoy located in the Vallée de la Marne, there exists a tiny domaine belonging to Benoît Déhu. From here, he crafts the prestige, La... Read more...
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R. Pouillon
|Sara Underdown.
The Pouillon family are privy to some fantastic terroir in Champagne’s Grande Vallée. Rich and textured, whilst paradoxically elegant and enthrallingly vibrant, these are stunning interpretations of terroir, especially through... Read more...
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Domaine Vincey
|Sara Underdown.
If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Meet the impressive husband and wife team shaking things up in... Read more...

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