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Champagne Bollinger Reveals Latest in Its PN Series: PN TX17This is the third release in Bollinger’s series of limited editions focussing on particular Champagne villages and vintages. -
Champagne Henriot Debuts L’Inattendue 2016The new Henriot cuvée kicks off a series of a series of annual small vintage releases from parcels that stand out. -
Laurent-Perrier’s Grand Siècle and the New No. 25Blended from three outstanding but complementary vintages, Champagne Laurent-Perrier’s Grand Siècle is an exceptional cuvée. Its latest... -
Perrier-Jouët Belle Époque Blanc de Blancs: An Entire VerticalThe launch of the latest vintage of Perrier-Jouët Belle Époque Blanc de Blancs from 2012, prompted the Champagne house to present an entire... -
Champagne Gosset Launches Celebris 2008After releasing its pink sibling from the 2008 vintage, Celebris Rosé, in October last year, it is now the white wine's turn to be... -
Devaux Launches First Organic ChampagneThe Cœur de Nature cuvée is the Champagne co-operative’s first certified organic wine. -
France’s Oldest Champagne House Launches "Sun-Drenched" WineChampagne Gosset, whose winemaking history dates back to 1584, has released its Grand Millésime from 2015 vintage, a warm and sunny year. -
Largest Moët & Chandon Champagne Bar in Europe to Open at HarrodsMoët & Chandon will open its biggest standalone Champagne bar in Europe at the end of June at Harrods in Knightsbridge, London. -
Billecart-Salmon Releases Louis Salmon Blanc de Blancs 2008Billecart-Salmon is best known for its elegant Brut Rosé Champagne, but a mini-vertical of prestige cuvée Louis Salmon showed their... -
A Complete Guide to ChampagneChampagne has become a symbol of celebration as the corks pop and bubbles foam. It's time to savour the wine itself with our backgrounder on... -
Champagne Krug Unveils 170th Edition of Grande Cuvée and the 26th Edition of Krug RoséChampagne Krug launched its two latest cuvées – the 170th Edition of Krug Grande Cuvée will hit the UK market at the end of May, the 26th... -
Champagne Ayala Releases Third Wine in Its 'AYALA Collection'Ayala No. 14 is a rosé Champagne from the 2014 vintage and the third release of the house's 'AYALA Collection' of limited... -
How Would You Like Your Eggs...with Champagne?To celebrate its 250th anniversary, the Champagne house Veuve Clicquot has opened a pop-up restaurant in London, serving British classics... -
Giveaway: Win the New Book “Champagne in Britain 1800-1914”The book is an entertaining but well-researched romp through Champagne’s heady early days in Britain. Author Graham Harding gives you a... -
Landmark Study: Champagne is the Elixir of YouthThe first paper of this long-term study that started in 1997 was finally published on 1 April 2022, establishing Champagne as the perfect... -
Charles Heidsieck Releases 7th Vintage of Landmark ChampagneCharles Heidsieck has just released the latest vintage of its landmark Champagne, Blanc de Millénaires 2007, only the seventh vintage ever... -
Dry Extract Interview: Olivier Krug of Krug ChampagneIn our Dry Extract mini-interview feature we ask top professionals in the world of wine, food and travel to answer 13 deceptively simple... -
Champagne Bollinger Releases La Grande Année 2014The release of a new vintage of Bollinger’s La Grande Année is always an event. Falstaff tasted both the white and the rosé version of the... -
EU Bans Sales of Champagne & Caviar to RussiaTruffles washed down with fine Champagne are off the menu for Russia's elites after the EU banned the sale of luxury goods in response to... -
And the Culinary Oscar Goes to...Wolfgang Puck & Ghetto GastroHollywood stars will dine on dishes by Wolfgang Puck & Ghetto Gastro washed down with Brad Pitt's Champagne at this year's Oscars on March... -
Henri Giraud – Unusual ChampagnesThe forest of Argonne and so-called perpetual reserves play a key role in the unusual and gastronomic Champagnes of Henri Giraud. -
Champagne G.H. Mumm Launches Mumm Millésimé 2015The Champagne house, founded in 1827, has debuted its latest vintage cuvée. The wine spent five years on lees before being disgorged in... -
Champagne Castelnau: Pairing Pink Champagne with FoodChampagne Castelnau sets a supreme example of how to pair rosé Champagne with food, especially when different dosage levels are involved. -
Think Pink: A Primer on Rosé Champagne and FoodRosé Champagne isn't just reserved for romantic moments. This pink fizz that gets its colour from a small percentage of red wine – or from... -
Moët Hennessy Opens Rosé Lumière Pop-Up at London Department StoreThe wine and Champagne powerhouse has come up with a cinema-themed pop up to entice shoppers to drink pink – across the Moët Hennessy... -
Champagne Ayala Releases Le Blanc de Blancs 2015Champagne Ayala, known for its taut, sleek and Chardonnay-focused style, has released its latest Blanc de Blancs from the 2015 vintage. -
Champagne Louis Roederer Releases Cristal 2014Champagne Louis Roederer's cellar master Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon hails this new vintage of Cristal as "a vintage of energy and of... -
Champagne Sales Hit Record 322 Million BottlesChampagne sales grew by more than 30% in 2021, with more people consuming Champagne at home due to the Covid pandemic. -
Creating the Magic of ChampagneJean-Baptiste Lécaillon is the inspired cellar master of Champagne Louis Roederer and the man behind Cristal - one of the most thrilling... -
Claude Taittinger, Former Champagne House head, Dies at 94Claude Taittinger, who led his family Champagne house for around 40 years, died in Paris on Jan. 3. -
Dubai Hotel Builds World's Largest Drinking Glass PyramidThe 8.23 metre high pyramid features 54,740 Champagne flutes filled with Moët & Chandon. -
Pairing Champagne with Food - Science Proves the MatchProfessor Barry Smith of the Centre for the Study of the Senses at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London explains the... -
Moët & Chandon: A Century of ChampagneMoët & Chandon marked the centenary of the great 1921 vintage – held to be one of the greatest Champagne vintages ever – by holding a... -
Champagne Les Rendez-vous de Billecart-Salmon No. 2 Extra Brut DebutsChampagne Billecart-Salmon debuts the second in a new series of limited release cuvées: this time it is made from 100% Pinot Noir. -
Champagne Pommery Releases Cuvée Louise 2005Champagne Pommery’s prestige cuvée pays homage to the courageous and ground-breaking Jeanne-Alexandrine Louise Pommery who took over the... -
Vietnamese Pizza and Sparkling HereticsOur columnist wonders if straying from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier in sparkling wines is like having local versions of pizza. -
Champagne Billecart-Salmon: The Complete Vertical of Clos Saint-HilaireFalstaff tasted a complete vertical of every Clos Saint-Hilaire ever released by Champagne Billecart-Salmon: a series of outstanding and... -
Champagne Henriot Releases 2012 VintageHenriot is a Champagne house for insiders – it does fly under the radar but produces exquisite Champagnes. -
Dom Pérignon launches first limited edition with Lady GagaThe champagne house and the pop icon jointly present the limited editions of Vintage 2010 and Rosé 2006 in exclusive packaging. -
France to Resume Champagne Exports to RussiaFrench Champagne exports to Russia will resume from today after labelling row. -
New Auction Record Set for a Château Mouton Rothschild “Nebuchadnezzar”Château Mouton Rothschild “Nebuchadnezzar” from the legendary vintage of 2000 was sold for $140,299. -
Champagne Bollinger Releases Special Cuvée 007 Limited EditionChampagne Bollinger has launched a Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition to celebrate the release of the new James Bond film 'No Time to... -
Champagne: The Sigh of ReliefChampagne occasions often fall victim to hopeless clichés. They fail to do justice to the wonderful sparkling wines that are being poured.... -
Champagne Bruno Paillard Releases Assemblage 2012 Vintage with Art LabelThis is the house’s artist label release: each year an artist is especially commissioned to create a painting to feature on the label. -
Champagne Ayala Creates New Prestige Cuvée La Perle 2012The Bollinger-owned Champagne house Ayala has created a new prestige cuvée: La Perle 2012.
Cocktail Recipes
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Mint in a PoolRefreshing mint from the garden, combined with lime and verjus, rounds off the rich aroma of Veuve Clicquot Rich Champagne perfectly. -
LiaisonBartenders Lukas Hochmuth & Michael Reinhart created this festive Champagne cocktail. -
Champagne CocktailPleasingly ritualistic to make and delicious to drink, champagne cocktails are guaranteed to make any party go with a swing. -
Black VelvetSaid to have been invented to mark the death of Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, in 1861, this mixture of bitter stout and sparkling wine oozes gothic glamour. -
Imperial 1869The cocktail creation Impérial 1869 is enhanced with grapefruit bitters and orange blossom water to emphasise the fresh aromas of Moët Impérial. -
Blackberry Rosemary SparklerSparkling pleasure: the bubbles ae given a fruity note by homemade blackberry cordial. -
La La Land ChampagnePassion fruit juice, ginger beer and Champagne are combined to create an exotic punch.