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...

What were you up to in 2013? Me? Well since you asked, I was living on Brooklyn’s loudest avenue (Flatbush), watching the construction site across the street from me assume its final form as The...

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...