Champagne Pommery is a key part of the much larger Vranken Pommery Monopole Group, and has been around since 1857 when a late second child and a failing wool industry forced Alexandre Pommery to come out of retirement and try his hand at creating Champagnes. The legacy of both his and his wife's efforts are today …
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Joseph Perrier is a medium sized champagne house located in the town of Chalons-en-Champagne, south east of Reims. A key pride of the house is its multi-generational leadership, since its inception in 1825 by Joseph Perrier himself until 1998 when it was purchased by the Alain Thienot group – which has strong presence in the …
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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 …
Remy D'Audierre is the bargain price point wine of Champagne Cuperly, a house from Verzy, Champagne. Cuperly was founded in 1845 a wine and spirits trader at first, with the family taking it into champagne production in the early 1900's. The pride of the house are it's vineyards, which are Grand Cru rated - the …
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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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Some champagnes have a high level of rotation on the cellar shelves, due to popularity. Due to this, we re-test some big house Brut NV's each year to ensure that our scoring is based on what you can buy now. We call this "freshening your drink" and our scoreboard reflects the latest and greatest bottles …
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Some Champagnes have a high level of rotation on the cellar shelves, due to popularity. Due to this, we re-test big house Brut NV's each year to ensure that our scoring is based on what you can buy now. We call this "Freshening your drink" and our scoreboard reflects the latest and greatest bottles you …
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