Disappointment among winegrowers:
Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne sets the permitted yield for the 2024 harvest
Business journalists like to fill their empty pages with reports on the economic prospects of Champagne wines.
In doing so, they tend to miss the point because they fail to take into account various crucial parameters, especially since they don't know them.
Champagne: You don't drink it, you sip it
Flaubert Gustave, Dictionary of Commonplaces
Who drinks champagne from these glasses?
The centuries-old debate about the right glasses for champagne is finally picking up speed again. Thanks to Re Carlos III and the President.
"To believe that wine cheers you up, I would have to be a Christian," wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in 1889 in Ecce homo: Why I am so clever. The expression on the faces of the two gentlemen indicates what the thinker meant.
They probably don't even quarrel with the thick rim of their glasses. It simply fits in with the two flags and the whimsical table decoration.
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Big BottlesBenoît Gouez on Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage 2013: Champagne of spring or autumn?
and Krug Grande Cuvée 169 as well as seven more bottles Edition empty
Le Mesnil, the terroir for minerality and radiant flavor. This cuvée of a cooperative deserves the oenological magnifying glass
Denis Bunner, Chef de Caves, about
Bollinger’s Champagne Concept
A bottle of Bollinger champagne can be drunk quickly, but the idea behind it is not so easy to understand.
In this The Long Detail View video, Denis Bunner, Bollinger's Chef de Caves, explains the basic concept of this Champagne house.
And that's ultimately what Champagne wine is all about: about conceptions and drinking the bottle.
New YouTube-Playlist
Anselme und Guillaume Selosse, Avize,
on Dosage + Temperament + Details
Inside the heart and the temperament of the Domaine Jacques Selosse: A precise protocol on the discussion between Anselme und Guillaume Selosse on which dosage suits to the different Champagnes.
The Selosse Champagnes are always distinguished with low dosage like the three cuvées which are 100% Chardonnay from the villages of Cramant (lieu-dit Chemin de Châlons), Mesnil-sur-Oger (lieu-dit Les Carelles) and Avize (lieu-dit Les Chantereines).
An authentic documentation of the fundamental importance of this very special stage in the production of some of the most exceptional and individual Champagne wines.
New YouTube-Channel
biodynworld
Mainly in German
It's been a while, but now in a new outfit on YouTube: Discussion with plant breeder Hartmut Spiess on "The wisdom of the dung heap" .
In the open-air discussion, Spiess provides deeper insights into biological breeding work. In German.