February Champagne Club: Goutorbe-Bouillot

Goutorbe-Bouillot  Drinking Champagne is famously fun and easy; making Champagne is notoriously laborious and difficult. And while it’s not entirely true that these properties exist in inverse proportion to one another, often as not the...

October '23 Champagne Club: Bergere & Laborde

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...

August '23 Champagne Club: Pinot Meunier

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,...

April '23 Champagne Club

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...