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Blanc des Millénaires 2014 champagne bottle on white marble surface
Charles Heidsieck's Blanc des Millénaires 1996 and 2014
|Sara Underdown.
Charles Heidsieck has surprised wine lovers worldwide with a previously unheard of 1996 version of Blanc des Millénaires in addition to the next opus from 2014.  It's an interesting comparison... Read more...
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Jacques Picard: Bastion of Berru
|Sara Underdown.
A stone’s throw east of Reims there’s a place you most likely haven’t heard of. Berru is an historic village that has been at the frontline of battlegrounds during both... Read more...
Egly-Ouriet Champagne bottles lineup on wooden table, label of Millesime 2014 Grand Cru in focus
Egly-Ouriet New Release Champagnes
|Sara Underdown.
Egly-Ouriet has been long celebrated for making some of the very best wines in Champagne; integrating purity and precision within richness, roundness and deep concentration to create age-defying champagnes that... Read more...
A Change in the Wind
A Change in the Wind
|Gert Crum.
Champagne lovers gather around. Listen, can you hear the winds of change? Now, more than ever, Champagne’s growers are bringing awareness to flavour, style and the all-important question of terroir.... Read more...
Wine cellar with large wooden barrels in rows under arched ceiling, winery storage room
Blending In: Champagne's Reserve Wines
|Kaaren Palmer.
The lure of champagne is a mystery for us all. What makes it so appealing, seductive, even magical? Its uniqueness may come from the land, but its mystery lies in... Read more...
Vintage newspaper clippings showing shipwrecked wine bottles, underwater diver, and scientist.
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...
Cristal champagne being poured into a glass at an elegant dinner table
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...
Woman in a gold dress holding a Louis Roederer champagne bottle in a stylish bar
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...
French bistro table with salad, bread, white wine, and Le Petit Gimios bottle
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...
Piper-Heidsieck Essentiel Blanc de Noirs champagne bottle close-up with gold label
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...
Louis Roederer Cristal Rosé 2008 champagne bottle and glass on a light marble surface
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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