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Grower Champagne tasting week falls short of becoming the region’s Grands Jours
Six years ago, a group of seventeen Champenois vignerons created a new tasting concept focusing on terroir and wine and called it Terres et Vins de Champagne. The aim was to show that Champagne can also be terroir wine rather … Continue reading
Posted in Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, terroir
Tagged Artisans de Champagne, Champagne, Club Trésor de Champagne, Grands Champagne, Grands jours de Champagne, living soil, Mais du Terroir de Champagne, Origine Champagne, Passion Chardonnay, Terres et Vins de Champagne, Terroir, terroir champagne, Trait-d'Union
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Avant les bulles – an organic story of vins clairs
Author’s note before you read this article – Amanda Reagan accused me of plagiarism because my original title was Before the bubbles – an organic story of vins clairs tastings. She has written an article in 2010 which was called … Continue reading
Posted in Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, vins clairs
Tagged biodynamic, biodynamic farming, Caroline's Champagne, Champagne, Emmanuel Brochet, Fleury, Folliage, Hervé Jestin, Leclerc-Briant, organic, organic farming, single vineyard, Victor Dravigny, vin clair, Vincent Charlot, Vincent Laval, vins clairs
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St Vincent 2014 in Hautvillers
It was unusually cold on the 22 January, the day St Vincent is celebrated in Hautvillers. ‘La St Vincent’ gathers the whole village together to give thanks to their patron saint for the harvest that was and to pray for … Continue reading
Posted in Caroline's Champagne, Champagne
Tagged brioche, Champagne, Dom Perignon, Hautvillers, St Vincent, wine
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French Police: Friend or Foe?
On Friday it was the fourth International Champagne Day, and the group of Terres et Vins de Champagne Vignerons had organized a small event in the Glue Pot in Reims to let people discover their wines for a small fee. … Continue reading
#ChampagneHarvest13:the making of Rosé de Saignée
Rosé Champagne is a small but growing part of the market and in the last twenty years it has become part of the portfolio of just about every Champagne producer. Most Champagne rosés are made by adding a small percentage … Continue reading
#ChampagneHarvest 13: Champagne Goutorbe, Philippe Gonet and UPR in Le Mesnil
The Goutorbe family is an institution in Ay. Not long after the first world war Emile Goutorbe, winemaker at that time for Perrier Jouet, decides to open a grape nursery. Over the next decades he will slowly expand his business … Continue reading
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Tagged #champagneharvest13, Ay, Bisseuil, Champagne, Chardonnay, Goutorbe, harvest, Le Mesnil, Montgeux, Philippe Gonet, Pinot Noir
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#ChampagneHarvest13: Cumières & the Sézannais
Champagne Georges Laval Les Chenes is an iconic cuvée, a single vineyard or lieu dit of 0.4 hectares (40 Ares), on the lower part of the steep slope between Cumières and Hautvillers. The vineyard is south facing with a gorgeous … Continue reading
#ChampagneHarvest13 – Kick Off in Cummière
It is that exciting time of the year again! This year no secateurs for me, but I have set myself as a goal to try and visit fifty to sixty Champagne producers during harvest and report my findings here in … Continue reading
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Tagged #champagneharvest13, Champagne, Champagne Geoffroy, Cummiere, harvest, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, Meunier
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Grands jours de Champagne?
Whilst there are plenty of international wine fairs, a lot of winemakers prefer to show off their wines on home territory. It gives them the opportunity to really woe the diverse audience of national and international press, importers, distributors and … Continue reading
Posted in Champagne, terroir, wine fair, wine tasting
Tagged Artisans de Champagne, Champagne, Champagne Tasting, Circle of Wine Writers, Grands jours de Bourgogne, Grands jours de Champagne, Talents et Terroirs de Champagne, tasting, Terres et Vins de Champagne, Trait-d'Union, vins clairs
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Where I look for terroir and bubbles when I am not in Champagne
I am intrinsically attracted to quirky slightly off beat places and tend to look for them wherever I go. Today I want to talk about 2 of these places; I feel they belong in this blog as they have become … Continue reading
Posted in Champagne, terroir, wine eductation, wine tasting
Tagged Champagne, CHAMPAGNOTHÈQUE®, tasting with a twist, Terroirific, Terror, wine tasting
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