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Bergere & Laborde Completing various courses of riddling, disgorging and bottle aging before release, Champagne is valedictorian of the wine world’s most punishing finishing school. Trained to present as pristine on any occasion, it’s easy...
We Just Say Meunier As you likely already know, three grapes, the so-called ‘noble trinity’, constitute the source material for 99.7ish% of all the Champagne in the world. The first two, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir,...
Louis Nicaise & Hervé Brisson The first known depiction of Champagne on canvas comes in a 1735 painting entitled “The Oyster Lunch”, which is exactly what it sounds like: a tableau of foppish be-wigged aristocrats...
Gonet-Médeville & Marie Copinet Spring done sprung since our last installment of Champagne Club, and other than the weather, most of the traditional indicia have arrived rite (sorry) on schedule. Spring training is over, the...
Vincent Charlot/Guillaume Sergent Speaking to his ghostwriter shortly before he mic-dropped this mortal coil, the artist forever - sorry, 4ever - known as Prince chided critics tethering his music to otherworldly concepts like “alchemy” and,...
Saint Chamant & Coquillette Now that we’re smack in the middle of celebration season, I find myself wondering, with every toast: Why Champagne? Besides being delicious, what accounts for its specific mystique, its literal elevated...
