Club Oenologique Champagne Report is out!

Our first ever Champagne Report with Club Oenologique magazine is out. I tasted 350 champagnes for this report, of which some 250 made it past the 90-point mark. In the Part 1 of the report published today we focus on champagne houses’ and cooperatives’ produce, and a special grower champagne report will follow next year! […]
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CSWWC 2022 medal results are out!

The medal winners of the Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships are announced with a total of 147 Gold & 249 Silver medals awarded in this year’s competition. This year saw close to 1000 sparkling wines judged over 11 days from 21 different countries with Australia, France and Italy submitting their most entries since the […]
Tasted: Alfred Gratien Memoires Collection

TheMemoires Collection by Alfred Gratien – three consecutive vintages from 1996 until 1998, all crafted by the father-son winemaking duo, Jean-Pierre and Nicolas Jaeger. We commenced with the youngest, Memory 1998 (disgorged February 2015). The colour showed deep golden already and the nose was rich and abundantly fruity with tropical fruit meeting golden raisins, yellow […]
Club Oenologique: New fizz on the block by Essi Avellan

New fizz on the block: meet the experimental grower Champagne producers The grower Champagne revolution shows no sign of slowing, with a wealth of confident, experimental producers challenging traditional lore through an increased focus on single-vineyard wines. Essi Avellan MW pays a visit to six of them. The sweeping changes of the past 20 years […]
Club Oenologique: Champagnes of the Year!

With many houses reporting a run on fizz, Essi Avellan MW picks out the best new releases to snap up now – and enjoy later The past two years have been a roller-coaster ride in the Champagne world. The major houses have rebounded from the slump generated by the onset of the pandemic only to […]
CSWWC Results 2021!

Supreme World Champion     Dom Ruinart 2004 Rosé Magnum World Champion Tony Jordan Rising Star      Abrau-Durso Russian Sparkling Wine House   Chairman’s Trophy    Carassia  Rosé NV     Sparkling Wine Producer of the Year Ferrari Trentodoc   World Champion Classic NV Brut    Louis Roederer NV Collection 242   World Champion Classic Vintage Brut  Louis Roederer 2013 Brut […]
CSWWC 2021 announces Gold & Silver medal results

The world’s toughest and most prestigious sparkling wine competition, The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2021 (CSWWC), is delighted to announce its most decorated medal year yet, with a total of 139 Gold & 268 Silver medals awarded to 19 countries. All the Gold & Silver medal winners can be found here: CSWWC 2021 […]
New Dom Pérignons tasted!

Today I had my first taste of the upcoming, much anticipated 2012 vintage of Dom Pérignon. This vintage, according to chef de cave Vincent Chaperon, celebrates Dom Pérignon’s freedom of creativity. In a near-perfect year following a truly challenging growing season, Dom Pérignon ended up being equipped with an amazing choice of exciting and versatile […]
Coteaux Champenois tasting in WFW magazine

COTEAUX CHAMPENOIS: STILL LIFE Still winemaking (red, white, and rosé) is on the up in Champagne. But how good are the results? Essi Avellan MW introduces a promising, varied, if variable tasting shared with Simon Field MW and Jancis Robinson MW. Read the article from The World of Fine Wine magazine’s issue 71 here: WFW71 […]
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