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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...
Man tasting white wine in a cellar, sitting on Déhu Fossoy oak barrels, stone wall backdrop
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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When Frost Bites
|Sara Underdown.
A lot is said about Champagne’s extreme climate and the challenges of frost, but it’s hard to fully understand its devastating impact when you cannot see it for yourself. Sara... Read more...
Charles Heidsieck's Champagne Charlie: Rebirthing a Legend
Charles Heidsieck's Champagne Charlie: Rebirthing a Legend
|Sara Underdown.
After 37 years, connoisseurs and enthusiasts seeking the gift of time can rediscover Charles Heidsieck’s signature cuvée - Champagne Charlie. “Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even... Read more...
A More Extreme Cristal! The Release of Louis Roederer Cristal 2014
A More Extreme Cristal! The Release of Louis Roederer Cristal 2014
|Sara Underdown.
In the latest from Louis Roederer, Cristal 2014 represents a continuum of incredible Cristal releases that appear elevated, flattering with intense deliciousness and exceptional drinkability on release. It started with... Read more...

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