Piper-Heidsieck is the most popular of the 3 well-known Heidsieck Champagne houses. The House began as Heidsieck & Co in 1785 which was split into two companies by bickering descendants in 1838 – One continuing and evolving into Piper-Heidsieck, the other into Heidsieck & Monopole. A third house: Charles Heidsieck, came to be in 1851 …
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Forget-Chemin is a small recoltant champagne house based in Ludes, Champagne. All 13 hectares of the houses vineyards are classified as Level 3 HVE; meaning they operate to the highest level of sustainable viticulture. The house grows all of it's own grapes used for it's wines, with vineyards across several regions in Champagne. Today we try …
Champagne De Saint Gall is a champagne brand from the Union Champagne cooperative founded in Avize, Champagne in 1966. Union Champagne is made up of some 13 smaller cooperative bodies, and as a whole is comprised from 2150 individual members who own some 1260 hectares of vineyards strategically placed all over the region - a …
Champagne Duperrey is a Marque d'acheteur champagne brand of Australian supermarket giant Woolworths, and is exclusively sold through it's Dan Murphy and BWS chains. How does this work? Woolworths owns the brand label "Duperrey" - which is a homage to adventurer Louis Isidore Duperrey who circumnavigated the globe in his ship La Coquille. This brand is attached …
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On occasion, life throws you opportunities to drink something very special. And while CT is not about how much you can spend on quality champagne (moreover, we're about how much you could save) we also think that any chance of being able to experience the upper echelons of the drink should never be ignored! So …
Paul Bara is a family run, recoltant champagne house based in Bouzy, Champagne. All 33 of the houses vineyards are classified as Grand Cru - that is; the land is classified as best of the best in terms of growing conditions within the Champagne region. The origins of the house hark back to the 1860's when …
Chigny-Les-Roses is a small village located 16km’s south of Reims, Champagne. Despite its size, Chigny-Les-Roses still manages to have a few notable champagne houses which includes Dumangin, Lassalle and (throwing its youngish elbows about) Cattier. Founded as a house proper in 1918 (prior to that the family were long running grape growers), the business is …
Henri Abele is the 3rd oldest champagne house in Reims, Champagne. It was founded in 1757 by one Theodore Vander Veken, who's house was succeeded by Antoine de Muller who then became partnered with Francois Abele. The Abele family provided the future generations of family to run the house, and one of its famous contributions …
Champagne Collet is the oldest cooperative body in champagne and is based in Ay, Champagne. Founded in 1921 to protect independent wine makers from counterfeit, the COGEVI group (selling as Collet - after original director Raoul Collet) was born out of the champagne riots of 1911 when a streak of disastrous vintages and the illegal …
One of the 3 champagne houses originating from the famous Heidsieck family, Heidsieck & Co Monopole was founded in 1785 by Henri Louis Walbaum and Auguste Heidsieck. Based out of Reims, the house is today owned by the Vranken Pommery group. Although the house's lineage is based off the famed Piper-Heidsieck establishment, Monopole & Co has …
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