June 2026 Champagne Club
Paul Berthelot & Colin Happy (Belated) Summer Solstice! As you might’ve heard, there is a World Cup taking place at this very moment on this exact continent. Visitors from around the globe, draped in the...
Champagne Club December 2025: Message in a Bottle
Now that we’re approaching the apex of celebration season, I find myself wondering, with every toast: Why Champagne? Besides being delicious, what accounts for its specific mystique, its literal elevated status - the raised glasses...
October 2025 Champagne Club
Eric Rodez & Charles de Cazanove The other day a fellow wine industry person was telling me about a method champenoise bottling they recently uncorked and very much did not enjoy. “I mean, it’s a...
August Champagne Club: Allouchery-Bailly & Barrat-Masson
Allouchery-Bailly & Barrat-Masson First off, apologies for the lag of this here communique. I received and rang these selections last week, and intended to have the notes ready to go shortly thereafter, but couldn’t finish before...
Champagne Club June: E. Barnaut & Michel Gonet
Champagne is so internationally famous, such a universal shorthand for all things quality, luxury and convivial (off the top of my head: Miller Hi-Life ‘the champagne of beers’; Churchill’s quip that meeting FDR for the...
April Champagne Club: Guy Charlemagne & Louise Brison
Guy Charlemagne & Louise Brison Close your eyes, count to Champagne and you might picture two figures right away: Dom Perignon and Veuve Clicquot. You could call them the First Couple of Bubbly or whatever,...