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FINE Champagne selects the 100 Best Champagnes in 2015
Read more: FINE Champagne selects the 100 Best Champagnes in 2015FINE Champagne and thetastingbook.com select the World’s Best Champagne – Ruinart Dom Ruinart Rosé 2002 claims the crown FINE Champagne magazine, the international publication devoted to champagne and thetastingbook.com, the new on-line media for wine, announce their list of the “100 Best Champagnes for 2015”. After days of blind-tasting hundreds of champagnes, the final results…
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Grand Champagne Helsinki 2015 – The bubbliest weekend ever
Read more: Grand Champagne Helsinki 2015 – The bubbliest weekend everOn May 8th and 9th the Old Student House in the very center of Helsinki gathered together over 3,000 champagne lovers, gourmands and wine professionals. Our guests from Champagne included Clovis Taittinger (Champagne Taittinger), Frédéric Panaïotis (Champagne Ruinart), Hubert de Billy (Champagne Pol Roger), Gauthier Vecten (Champagne Henri Giraud), Edouard Cossy (Champagne Laurent-Perrier), and…
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New Champagne Master-Level Program tutored by Essi Avellan MW
Read more: New Champagne Master-Level Program tutored by Essi Avellan MWThe French Wine Society offers a new, comprehensive study and certificate program on the wines of Champagne. The French Wine Society, world leader in French wine education, announces the launch of a comprehensive distance-learning study and certificate program on the wines of Champagne. This is an in-depth course of study conducted at the master-level and…
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Read my Review of Bollinger Vieilles Vignes Françaises in The World of Fine Wine
Read more: Read my Review of Bollinger Vieilles Vignes Françaises in The World of Fine WineWorld of Fine Wine on January 15th 2015: Essi Avellan MW relished the opportunity to taste every declared vintage of Bollinger’s legendary blanc de noirs, including its recently released 2005. Read the article here: Bollinger Vieilles Vignes Francaises by Essi Avellan MW
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Clos des Goisses at Texture
Read more: Clos des Goisses at TexturePhilipponnat’s Clos des Goisses is a famously charismatic single-vineyard champagne of great longevity. One of the greatest lures of Clos des Goisses is the intellectual pleasure achieved by following how it performs in different vintages and over time (only 12 vintages out of the 79 since 1935 have not been made). And there is a…
