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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...
Two Rosés, One Signature: How Charles Heidsieck Achieves Texture and Precision
Two Rosés, One Signature: How Charles Heidsieck Achieves Texture and Precision
|Sara Underdown
Charles Heidsieck always manages to produce champagnes that offer a different kind of power; something quieter and more refined. They don’t announce themselves loudly; they unfold. And almost always, they... Read more...
Inside Joseph Perrier’s Quiet Renaissance
Inside Joseph Perrier’s Quiet Renaissance
|Sara Underdown
In Champagne, certain names carry an almost instinctive resonance. Perrier is one of them. For many, it evokes heritage, prestige and a sense of permanence within a region where time... Read more...
Champagne’s Eighth Grape: The Quiet Return of Chardonnay Rosé
Champagne’s Eighth Grape: The Quiet Return of Chardonnay Rosé
|Sara Underdown
For a region built on precision, precedent and some of the world’s tightest wine regulations, Champagne is not known for surprises. Yet, recently, the appellation quietly expanded its official framework... Read more...
Sister Act: How Sixth Generation Sisters are Ushering in a New Era at Guy Charlemagne
Sister Act: How Sixth Generation Sisters are Ushering in a New Era at Guy Charlemagne
|Sara Underdown
When Justine and Marie Charlemagne returned to Épernay in 2023, they didn’t simply come back to a Champagne estate. They came home. I met the sisters at one of the... Read more...
First Taste: Bollinger PN TX20
First Taste: Bollinger PN TX20
|Sara Underdown
First taste of Bollinger PN TX20 reveals a poised, terroir-driven Blanc de Noirs from Tauxières, where Pinot Noir, reserve-wine depth and disciplined oak delivers precision, freshness and quiet confidence.  In... Read more...
Charles Heidsieck Delivers a Masterstroke for Age-Defying Champagnes
Charles Heidsieck Delivers a Masterstroke for Age-Defying Champagnes
|Sara Underdown
Charles Heidsieck delivers a masterstroke for creating age-defying champagnes with its latest releases from the exceptional 2018 vintage, tasted alongside the 2012 and 2006 vintage. Hailed by many as a... Read more...
The Art of Tablescaping for a Champagne Christmas
The Art of Tablescaping for a Champagne Christmas
|Sara Underdown
A champagne Christmas calls for a table that does more than just holds plates—it creates atmosphere, tells a story, and draws your guests into something genuinely special. Tablescaping, when it's... 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...
Pommery Announced as the Official Champagne Partner of the Sydney Opera House
Pommery Announced as the Official Champagne Partner of the Sydney Opera House
|Sara Underdown
Champagne Pommery has been announced as the champagne partner to the Sydney Opera House, under a new three-year arrangement. At an intimate gathering of friends and partners at the Sydney... Read more...

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