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10.01.2021
Champagne Marc Hebrart Premier Cru Selection and the Fiery Stallion from Gustave Flaubert's Dictionary of Commonplaces.
Useful passions Bottle empty It's a strange afternoon after a strange New Year's Eve. Yesterday I watched the world's largest light fireworks live in Cologne. So I browse ...
27.12.2020
Louis Roederer Vintage 2008 and Leo Szilard's Ten Commandments - Useful Passions : Bottle empty
Useful Passions Bottle Empty It's a sunny late afternoon in a lousy small town. Santa's morals are hanging in the air. It's a public holiday here, but luckily the tight ends are going...
26.12.2020
Cyril Brun, Champagne Charles Heidsieck's unique Chef de Caves, on the art of assemblage, the recipe for Charles and playing with the still wines of the 2019 harvest - Champagne Library Report Vintages 2019 ⇔ 2020
The Champagne Library Report vintages 2019 ⇔ 2020 starts with the cellar master of Champagne Charles Heidsieck. A brief but informative lesson in the fine art of assemblage with the three grape varieties Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Me...
26.12.2020
Champagne Library Report Vintages 2019 ⇔ 2020 - Similar vintages but the main differences are documented here
The Vintage Report, created for the first time in 2014 and the basis of a new book on champagne, will also take place this year. The two years 2019 and 2020 are pulled together given the unusual conditions ...
24.12.2020
Christian Göldenboog on his own behalf: background article in addendum about life in the Austrian wine capital of Langenlois with its Kamptal DAC star winemaker
Addendum did research on the mayor as Raiffeisenbank director, the importance of the zoning plan and zoning in hindsight. Langenlois at its best. Everything about the Lower Austrian terroi ...
23.12.2020
Champagne Lanson's Cellar Master Hervé Danton on video about the difficulties of the 2020 harvest
Everything about quantity, quality and the conditions during the harvest in the Chamapnger 2020: 2020 was anything but an ideal and easy harvest like in the years 2018 and 2019. The vegetation cycle and a quick maturation...
23.12.2020
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition - nevertheless it is still time to sign the Great Barrington Declaration initiated by Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Sunetra Gupta and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition - not really until now, but that has changed now. The Great Barrington Statement As infectious disease epidemiologists and scientists in the field of d...
23.12.2020
Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte and De Castelnau plan to merge their companies
Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte and De Castelnau plan to merge their companies The crisis in Champagne gives birth to a new company: the Center vinicole - Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte (CV-CNF) in Chouilly is the largest ...
19.12.2020
Champagne 2020: Année noire - historic slump in sales
Last week, Maxime Toubart, President of the Winegrowers' Association, and President of the Maisons de Champagne Jean-Marc Barillère took stock of the first year 2020. The sector recorded a historic turnover ...
11.12.2020
Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Champagne Roederer's Chef de Cave: The Year 2020 - An analytical comparison of the 2019, 2018, 2015, 1976, 1959, 1947, 1900, 1899 and 1898 harvests
Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon in his own words: what strikes us most about the 2020 vintage is the perfect health of the grapes. This one is reminiscent of the years 2019 and 2018. Of course, this is the key to the...
06.12.2020
Champagne 2020: Low crop yield depresses overall French wine production
The French Ministry of Agriculture originally forecast a harvest of 45 million hectoliters. But now the Service de la Statistique et de la Prospective (SSP) has put the total harvest at 44.1 million...
25.11.2020
Champagne: First figures on the decline in exports
The closure of restaurants in many countries around the world, the imposition of a 20% tax in the United States on wines with less than 14% alcohol by volume since October 2019, and the uncertainties surrounding ...
21.11.2020
Arnaud Margaine and his daughter Mathilde from Champagne A. Margaine in Villers-Marmery on the 2020 harvest - first assessment.
Friends of acidic Blanc de Blancs are familiar with Champagne A. Margaine, mainly because it mostly prevents malolactic fermentation: Its vines are located in a Chardonnay enclave in the Pinot-dominated Reimes Be ...
03.11.2020
Champagne, Ratafia, New Holland: Excitement about a harvester in Marfaux
The use of harvesting machines in the Champagne appellation is prohibited. In principle, it is read by hand. Of course, for the 2016 harvest, Moët & Chandon wanted to test harvesters on two hectares of vineyards...
29.10.2020
Champagne Jacquesson Cuvée n ° 741 - BOTTLE LEATHER
This cuvée no. 741 was bought in 2018, it is based on the 2013 harvest with reserve wines. The crus Ay, Dizy, Hautvillers, Avize and Oiry were assembled. 2013 was a very special year, although most of the harvests are now in Champagne e...
26.10.2020
Champagne Telmont from Damery on Biodynamics and the Cuvée Sans Soufre Ajouté
The latest in Champagne: the Rémy Cointreau group has acquired a majority stake in the J. de Telmont champagne house. The house is one of the few to experiment with biodynamics. In this video, Bertrand Lhopit explains...
21.10.2020
Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Champagne Roederer's Chef de Cave on 2020: The 245th Harvest - An unearthly vintage and the third in a row
How do you rate the last harvest in Champagne? Below is Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon's personal analysis, part 1: We never tire of saying that each new vintage is different and its unique...
18.10.2020
Champagne Jacquesson: Jean-Hervé Chiquet on the 2020 harvest - First assessment
Another Champagne harvest that started in August. Jean-Hervé Chiquet from Champagne Jacquesson in Dizy with a first approach. What are the differences to the 2019 harvest? How do the base wines differ? ...
06.10.2020
Expectations and predictions: Hervé Danton, Chef De Cave of Champagne Lanson, on the 2020 harvest
In our 260th year, 2020 was challenging on many fronts, and I am so grateful for the dedication of our teams and growers, who all put in extra efforts in the vineyards and at the winery to make this harvest a true success. After an amaz ...
24.09.2020
100 million bottles have not been sold, but according to Maxime Toubart, prices should remain stable: cheap champagne could be worse champagne.
Wie France 24 aktuell berichtetl: Sales of champagne, one of France's most iconic products, have tumbled over the past year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with industry representatives estimating that some 100 million bottles will be le ...
01.09.2020
2020 harvest in Champagne: maximum yield of 8,000 kilograms of grapes per hectare
After the harvest in Champagne began on August 17, one day later representatives of winegrowers and Champagne houses agreed on a maximum yield of 8,000 kilograms per hectare. For comparison: in 2019, on average ...
16.08.2020
Early start of harvest in Champagne
The harvest in Champagne with up to 120,000 helpers begins on August 17th in Aube. The Marne Valley will follow on August 18th. Curious: The yield to be harvested should not be announced until August 18th. The grapes feature &u...
16.08.2020
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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22.01.2020
Rodolphe Péters, Champagne Pierre Péters, on sugar, acidity, phenolic compounds and the right time to harvest
Champagne and climate change: in this video, Rodolphe Péters shares his views on maturity and phenolic compounds, the link between tartaric and malic acids and the blocking of malolactic fermentation...
13.01.2020
Anselme Selosse, Champagne Domaine Jacques Selosse, on the concept of assemblage and his opinion on the future 2018 vintage champagne
Champagne-Terroirist Anselme Selosse aus Avize im Champagne Harvest 2018 2017 Report. ...
02.01.2020
Champagne Tarlant Brut Vintage 1989 William Hunter = Hear! Hear! Hear! Flash Leer
Immense acidity, reduced fruit, power on the palate and a special feeling of well-being in the stomach - this champagne easily takes on a Chaource fermier. In general, champagne that has matured more often should be paired with a cheese.
30.12.2019
Hervé Danton, Champagne Lanson Chef de Caves, on the upcoming Noble Cuvée 2018 and Gold Label 2018 in the Vintage Harvest Report
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19.12.2019
Hervé Danton, Champagne Lanson Chef de Caves, in a double feature about the blend with the still wines from the 2017 2018 harvest. Blatant differences require skill.
The series about the vintages 2017 and 2018 is coming to an end. Hervé Danton looks back on the year 2017 and explains its climatic peculiarities. Next comes the vintage and the...
15.12.2019
Champagne Nominé-Renard Cuvée La Mémoire Blanc de Blancs Brut - Das Beste vom Besten. Useful passions
Villevenard, a cru village between the Côte des Blancs and the Côte Sézannais, is home to Champagne Nominé-Renard. Here the Chardonnay vine brings out fruity and complex notes, for which the Blanc de Blancs d...
07.12.2019
Nathalie Laplaige, Champagne Joseph Perrier's new Chef de Cave, on the 2017 and 2018 vintages in Champagne
A new face in Champagne oenology, generally dominated by heterogamous sex: Nathalie Laplaige. That's why she's giving her opinion here for the first time - on the harvests of the 2017 and 2018 vintages. In the Champagne Library ...
07.12.2019
Nathalie Laplaige, Champagne Joseph Perrier's new Chef de Cave, on the 2017 and 2018 vintages in Champagne
A new face in Champagne oenology, generally dominated by heterogamous sex: Nathalie Laplaige. That's why she's giving her opinion here for the first time - on the harvests of the 2017 and 2018 vintages. In the Champagne Library ...
01.12.2019
Hear! Hear! Hear! Champagne Mailly Grand Cru L'Intemporelle 2009 Cole PORTER's „I get no kick from champagne“ = Flasche Leer
This wine does not disprove the prejudice that the 2009 vintage could have an advantage over the 2008 vintage in Champagne. Regardless of what British wine journalists have to say on the subject...
25.11.2019
Champagne Veuve Clicquot's oenologist Gaëlle Goossens on the possibilities of a 2018 vintage in seven or eight years
Chef de Cave Dominque Demarville explained the difficulties of last year's harvest for Champagne Veuve Cliquot. Now it's time for winemaker Gaëlle Goossens to talk about the 2018 harvest and the...
18.11.2019
Guillaume Roffiaen, Chef de Caves at Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte, on the contrasting harvests of 2017 and 2018
Guillaume Roffiaen is an oenologist who must know his trade: as Chef de Caves of Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte, he is not only responsible for the wines of this brand; Roffiaen also exhibits together with his Ön ...
31.10.2019
Nicolas Jaeger, Champagne Alfred Gratien's Chef de Caves, on the 2018 harvest and the work on the assemblage
Style is the house: First fermentation always in oak barrels, no malolactic fermentation, the tradition of the cellar master is rooted in the Jaeger family: Nicolas Jaeger worked with his father, learned the tricks of ha ...
14.10.2019
Rollin Soles, founder of Argyle Winery in Dundee, Oregon, in the Willamatte Valley and Nate Klostermann on their show wine philosophy in the new SuperSparkle series
Recently received a tip from a well-known winemaker in Champagne: show wine in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, specifically Rollins Soles, Argyle Winery. Oregon is now famous for its Pinot Noirs, why not Sch...
03.10.2019
Champagne Louis Roederer's Chef de Caves Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon on the differences between the 2017 and 2018 harvest and still wines
All Champagne drinkers are talking about the crazy harvests of 2017 and 2018. All Champagne cellar masters are discussing these years of contrasts. The conditions have changed dramatically in the last 15 years ...
02.10.2019
READING PROBE CHBECK Verlag: THE WISDOM OF THE DAP HEAP - Expeditions into biodynamic agriculture
Contents Preface | 7 EXPEDITION 1 Developing a new idea of agriculture The Dottenfelderhof in the Wetterau near Frankfurt | 9 EXPEDITION 2 Why do cows have horns? The Riddle of Rudolf Steiner | 97 & ...
25.09.2019
A bit of a disappointment: Jean-Hervé Chiquet from Champagne Jacquesson about the 2018 vintage and harvest
The journalistic overhype about the 2018 Champagne harvest is similar to that which was staged in 1996 and 2008. It is therefore remarkable what Jean-Hervé Chiquet has to say about it. In general, 2017 and 2018 are considered vintages...
18.09.2019
What about Champagne Jacquesson's Cuvée 746? Jean-Hervé Chiquet talks about the strange harvest of 2017 and what it means for his Champagne-Champagne concept
2017 and 2018 are seen as vintages of contrasts in Champagne. Here Jean-Hervé Chiquet from Champagne Jacquesson in Dizy tells us about the unusual conditions during the 2017 harvest and what this meant for ...
03.09.2019
Champagne Veuve Fourny goes Blanc: Charles-Henry Fourny on the Cuvée Blanc de Blancs Brut Premier Cru from Vertus. The best of the best. Useful passions
Vertus is worth a cruise: A special cru at the southern end of the Côte des Blancs, near Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. Historically a place for plenty of Pinot Noir, Vertus is now home to some e...
24.08.2019
Laurent Champs from Champagne Vilmart & Cie in Rilly La Montagne on the 2017 2018 Champagne harvests - the years of contrasts
For 50 years, the Champs family has been following special paths in the Reimer Bergland: where Pinot Noir is generally grown, they have decided to give preference to the Chardonnay vine. What this means for the different harvest...
16.08.2019
New series: SuperSparkle - At this point, Christian Göldenboog presents the Sparkling Wine Excellence. From all over the world.
First up: Rollin Soles. In 1987 he founded Argyle Winery in Dundee, Oregon. They now have an illustrious number of sparkling wines on offer. Argyle is Oregon's trendsetter. In addition, Soles has now...
01.08.2019
Champagne Roederer Cristal 2002 Vinothèque - with Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Chef de Caves. The best of the best. Useful passions.
Roederer Cristal is a champagne that creates such a tingly sensation on the tongue that, as Truman Capote wrote, "after a sip, one feels that one has swallowed nothing, but vapors rise from the tongue and there everything...
20.07.2019
Champagne Jérôme Prévost La Closerie Les Béguines LC10 Otto Warburg= Flasche Leer
Anyone who thinks about this quote with this champagne perfects original sin. Hey! Hey! Hey! Physics brings the ferment bands into existence but organic chemistry is necessary for the identification or creation of these bands. As Anso...
14.07.2019
Champagne Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Vintage Brut 2008 - with Chef de Cave Dominique Demarville. The best of the best. The True Useful Passions
The hype about the 2008 Champagne vintage is in full swing. As always, there are skeptics. I am one of them. Much is reminiscent of the hocus-pocus about the 1996 vintage. Quite a few of the 2008 vintage are already developing for ...
09.07.2019
Champagne Jacquesson Cuvée 741 Jack London = Bottle Empty
Anyone who thinks about this quote with this champagne perfects original sin. Hey! Hey! Hey! I believe that life is a mess. It is like yeast, a ferment, a thing that moves and may move for a minute, an hour, a year, or a hundred years ...
30.06.2019
Champagne Lanson goes ORGANIC: The best of the best. Useful passions: Hervé Danton, cellar master of Champagne Lanson, Reims, on the new cuvée Green Label
Organic now also at Champagne Lanson: Green Label is the name of the new cuvée, made from mostly red grapes from Verneuil in the Marne Valley. The assemblage of 50 percent Pinot Noir, 20 percent Chardonnay, 30 percent Meunier reflects...
29.06.2019
Gilles Descôtes, Champagne Bollinger's Chef de Cave on the peculiarities of the 2017 and 2018 Champagne harvests
Gilles Descôtes has been Chef de Caves at Champagne Bollinger in Äy since 2013. Before that he was responsible for the vineyards of the house for ten years. It is therefore remarkable what Descôtes said about the contrasting years ...
27.06.2019
Champagne Library Report 2017/2018 with Cyril Brun, Champagne Charles Heidsieck Cellar Master
Vintage 2017 Champagne: Heavy August rains, especially in the Marne Valley, mean that many winegrowers and cellar masters describe 2017 as the most difficult vintage of their careers. 2018 became the exact opposite: ...
22.06.2019
YouTube film about the wisdom of the dung heap: Biodynamic farming expeditions
On the occasion of a book presentation at the Demeter farm Dottenfelderhof in Bad Vilbel, Francois Hagdorn interviewed Christian Göldenboog about his new book "The Wisdom of the Misthaufens". More below...
26.05.2019
Champagne Library Report 2017/2018: Jean-Pierre Vazart of Champagne Vazart-Coquart in Chouilly on the peculiarities of the 2017 and 2018 champagne harvests
How were the last two harvests in Champagne? How was the quality of the base wines? How difficult was the work for cellar masters and winemakers on the assemblage for the non-vintage Brut? Are there any prospects of a vintage ...
16.04.2019
The best of the best. Useful passions: Laurent Champs from Champagne Vilmart & Cie in Rilly La Montagne on the Cuvée Grand Cellier Rubis 2011
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16.04.2019
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16.04.2019
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16.04.2019
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16.04.2019
What do 2017 2018 mean for Champagne: Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Champagne Louis Roederer's Chef de Caves, on the future of Champagne
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11.03.2019
The wisdom of the dung heap on the Demeter Gärtnerhof Entrup 119 - Event reading Friday, March 29, 2019 -
Before the reading on the Demeter farm in 48341 Altenberge near Münster there is a farm tour with Rainer Roehl from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; then at 7 p.m. there will be a reading followed by a discussion: Why is it more important...
03.03.2019
Das Comeback der leeren Flasche: Charles Heidsieck Blanc des Millenaires 2004, Louis Roederer Cristal Millesime 2002, Louis Roederer Blanc de Blancs 1998.
Bottle Empty was the name of the wine column between 2009 and 2011, which is now celebrating a comeback, and rightly so. From January 2019 in the Champagne forum. The starting shot is Charles Heidsieck Blanc des Millenaires 2004, Louis Roederer Cristal Mi ...
02.03.2019
2018 ⇔ 2017 Champagne vintages of contrasts: from tragedy (2017) to euphoria (2018)
Vintage 2017 Champagne: warm and dry until the end of July, then it got wet and botrytis multiplied quickly. Heavy August rains, especially in the Marne Valley, made the situation worse. As the most difficult vintage of his career, ch...
04.02.2019
Wisdom of the dung heap with Hartmut Spieß and Christian Göldenboog
A documentation by Francois Hagdorn, created on the occasion of a discussion with Hartmut Spieß, who provides deeper insights into biodynamic breeding work. More about research, ...
20.01.2019
Demeter blogger Michael Olbrich-Majer on the WISDOM OF THE DUNG HEAP: So far we have only known embedded journalism from war reports
Words of Wisdom: Finally someone who gets the literary approach again: Michael Olbrich-Majer compares the literary reporting style of WISDOM OF THE DAP HEAP - EXPEDITIONS IN DIE BIODYNAMIC AGRICULTURE with a cr ...
13.12.2018
Demeter blogger Michael Olbrich-Majer on the WISDOM OF THE DUNG HEAP: So far we have only known embedded journalism from war reports
Words of Wisdom: Finally someone who gets the literary approach again: Michael Olbrich-Majer compares the literary reporting style of WISDOM OF THE DAP HEAP - EXPEDITIONS IN DIE BIODYNAMIC AGRICULTURE with a cr ...
13.12.2018
Throwback Champagne with Anselme Selosse
Anselme Selosse from Avize is one of the few winemakers who early on had a precise understanding of champagne as a wine, of prestige and rarity and of the importance of a wooden cask for an exceptional ...
11.12.2018
Interview in the new Demeter journal: Christian Göldenboog and Ulrike Schmid from the Heggelbachhof: The big picture at a glance
What makes Demeter farms special? What's the problem with glyphosate and synthetic nitrogen fertilizer? And what actually lies behind the unwieldy concept of the court organism? Author Christian Göldenboog and ...
10.12.2018
Foreword to The Wisdom of the Dung Heap: Expeditions into Biodynamic Agriculture
Foreword The time has now come: at some point you will even come across the term biodynamic when drinking wine or champagne. Some of the most expensive crops are now produced using this method of cultivation - but what ste...
16.11.2018
Benoît Gouez, Moët & Chandon's Chef de Cave on the latest blend of still wines from the 2017 harvest in the 2018 Champagne Library Report
Every six seconds in the world, someone pops a cork out of a bottle of Moët & Chandon. Benoît Gouez and his team are responsible for the quantity of their wines, but also for the quality. In the...
31.10.2018
The best of the best. Useful passions: Champagne Loriot-Pagel Special Club MILLÉSIME 2009
Champagne Joseph Loriot-Pagel is a winemaker I have known and respected for 30 years. I wrote about him back in 1998: “The winegrower Joseph Loriot-Pagel deserves a special recommendation; who has never had a champagne from the Marne- ...
13.10.2018
Christian Göldenboog: The books
************************************************** *************************************** BOOKS The wisdom of the dung heap - Expeditions into biodynamic agriculture , Verlag CH Beck, (2018) The champagne makers (together with ...
13.10.2018
Champagne terroirist Anselme Selosse on Christian Göldenboog's YouTube channel: What really happened in Champagne in 2017?
Anselme Selosse of Domaine Jacques Selosse explains the difficulties of his forty-fourth harvest and the work on this year's assemblage. Maybe it was even his last harvest? More on Christian Gölde ...
22.09.2018
Dominique Demarville, Cellar Master Champagne Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, on his work on the blending of the still wines of the 2017 harvest
Dominique Demarville has been Chef de Cave at Champagne Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin since 2009. He studied oenology and viticulture at the Lycée Viticole de la Champagne in Avize and the University of Burgundy in Dijon. In our video explain...
09/22/2018 Anselme Selosse from Avize is one of the few winemakers who early on had a precise understanding of champagne as a wine, of prestige and rarity and of the importance of a wooden cask for a new...
22.09.2018
Harvest and Assemblage 2017 New playlist on Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Channel
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22.09.2018
Champagne Pierre Peters, Le Mesnil sur Oger, Les Chetillons 2011: learn chalk, drink chalk. The best of the best. Useful passions
"The language of the Chalk is not difficult to learn, nowhere near as hard as Latin, if one wishes only to grasp the broad outlines of the story it has to tell; and I suggest that we get down to it now...
21.09.2018
The Wisdom of the Dung Heap with Hervé Jestin, Champagne Leclerc Briant
In a central chapter entitled The New World of Organic Wines A Pleasure Tour, The Wisdom of the Dung Heap addresses the growing importance of biodynamic winemakers. One of them is Hervé Jestin from Champagne...
20.09.2018
Champagne Library Report 2017 with Rodolphe Péters, Dominique Demarville, Anselme Selosse, Gilles Descôtes, Benoît Gouez, Hervé Danton, Jean-Hervé Chiquet, Didier Gimonnet, Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Hervé Jestin, Cyril Brun,
How was last year's harvest in Champagne? How was the quality of the base wines? How difficult was the work for cellar masters and winemakers on the assemblage for the non-vintage Brut? Are there any prospects of a vintage ...
15.09.2018
Champagne World on YouTube: New playlists on Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Channel
New from now on: Champagne Library Report is complete for the harvest of the years 2014, 2016 and 2015, soon there will also be the playlist for the year 2076. ...
06.09.2018
Event: THE WISDOM OF THE MISTHEAP and Heidi's Magic Park: Event reading in Vienna September 20, 2018, 7:30 p.m
Where: Heidi's Zauberpark Dornbacher Str. 62 1170 Vienna Austria CONTACT: Heidi's Zaubertpark "Organic" and "eco" are in. But "organic" is not the same as "organic&ldq ...
31.08.2018
Predictions and expectations: Rodolphe Péters of Champagne Pierre Péters, Mesnil-sur-Oger, on the early start of 2018 harvest in Champagne
Every year, every harvest in every wine region of the world is now more than extraordinary, but fortunately this statement says nothing about the future taste of the respective wine. In Champagne, there is ...
11.08.2018
Amazon Autorenseite von Christian Göldenboog
All books at a glance! Visit Christian Göldenboog's page on Amazon ...
08.08.2018
The wisdom of the dung heap
“Bio” and “eco” are trending right now. But not all “bio” is created equal. At its most far-reaching “biodynamics” has been translated into the principles of a close-to-nature agriculture with res ...
04.08.2018
Cheerful science now - new compact seminar on the question WHY IS CHALK WHITE?
Everyone is currently talking about the terroir - but what does the chalk really mean for the wine of Champagne. Where does she come from? And why does chalk look so white in contrast to lignite? The adequate quantum mechanical ...
22.07.2018
Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Chef de Cave Champagne Louis Roederer, on biodynamic farming and Roederer Cristal
"Organic" and "eco" are in. But "organic" is not the same as "organic". Most far-reaching is the principle of close-to-nature agriculture with respect for animals, plants and the soil from the &bdqu...
23.06.2018
Verlag CH Beck publishes the wisdom of the manure heap by Christian Göldenboog
Contents Preface | 7 EXPEDITION 1 Developing a new idea of agriculture – The Dottenfelderhof in the Wetterau near Frankfurt | 9 EXPEDITION 2 Why do cows have horns? The Riddle of Rudolf Steiner | 97 r t...
16.06.2018
Event reading "The Wisdom of the Dung Heap" on June 17th at the Dottenfelderhof near Frankfurt
50 years of Dottenfelderhof: Christian Göldenboog presented The Wisdom of the Dung Heap, with Sarah Wiener on the topic "Does our food still taste good?", Martin von Mackensen on "Düngen hei&sz ...
07.06.2018
Now on YouTube: Christian Göldenboog's THE Misthaufen Channel
Currently there are videos for the book The Wisdom of the Dung Heap - Expeditions into Biodynamic Agriculture (publisher CH Beck) that deal with all facets of biodynamic agriculture. Make the start...
14.04.2018
Jean-Hervé Chiquet on Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Channel: What about Champagne Jacquesson's Cuvée 744?
Still a trendsetter in Champagne: Jacquesson and their unique approach on their assemblage. Here, Jean-Hervé Chiquet talks about the Cuvée 744, based on the harvest 2016, which will be released in spring 2012 watch out Harvest 201 ...
14.04.2018
Grande Année 2016? Gilles Descôtes, Chef de Cave at Champagne Bollinger, talks about his upcoming cuvées
Champagne Bollinger's Grande Année is considered one of the classic Pinot Noir oriented cuvées of Champagne. The powerful yet elegant crus of Aÿ and Verzenay form the backbone of this vintage champagne. ...
01.04.2018
In stores from March 15th: The wisdom of the dung heap - Expeditions into biodynamic agriculture
Handcraft goes Disco "Organic" and "eco" are in. But "organic" is not the same as "organic". The most far-reaching is the principle of close-to-nature agriculture with respect for animals, plants and...
02.03.2018
Will there be a Roederer Cristal Vintage 2016? Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Champagne Louis Roederer's Chef de Caves, on Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Channel
A benchmark Champagne is of course Louis Roederer Cristal, both white and rosé. Will there be a Roederer Cristal Vintage 2016? Jean-Baptiste Léca answers this important oenological question...
02.03.2018
The wisdom of the manure heap with Anselme Selosse, Domaine Jacques Selosse, Terroirist Avize: Still Wines 2016
A central chapter entitled The new world of organic wines A pleasure tour The wisdom of the manure heap addresses the growing importance of biodynamic winemakers. One of them is Anselme Selosse, Domaine Jacques Selosse, Avize ...
01.03.2018
Will there be a Noble Cuvée 2016? Hervé Danton, Champagne Lanson's Chef de Caves, on Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Channel
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24.02.2018
Nice prospects for a Cuvée Louise 2016? Champagne Pommery's Thierry Gasco explains all the details about the 2016 harvest on Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Channel
Champagne Library Assemblage and Harvest 2016 Pommery's Cuvée Louise is one of the most iconic champagnes, always composed of the crus Ay, Cramant and Avize. In an interview, Thierry Gasco explains the background of the ...
02.01.2018
Roederer Cristal 2016? Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Champagne Louis Roederer's Chef de Caves, on the 2016 harvest and working on the assemblage A benchmark Champagne is of course Louis Roederer Cristal, both white a...
02.01.2018
Anne & Antoine Malassagne, siblings and fourth generation owners of Champagne AR Lenoble, on their special 2008 Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Chouilly
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29.12.2017
Hervé Danton, Chef de Cave Champagne Lanson, about the Clos Lanson 2016 on Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Channel
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24.12.2017
Benoît Gouez, Chef de Cave of Champagne Moët & Chandon, on the characteristics of the Grand Vintage 2008 Rosé 2008
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14.12.2017
GÖLDENBOOG'S CHAMPAGNE TIP: CLEVER COUPLES NEVER DRINK CHAMPAGNE
Champagne: It is drunk well chilled, between seven and twelve degrees. Anything else would kill the freshness, the foam development, the tingling of the carbon dioxide. Women drink it with restraint, in small ...
13.12.2017
Happy Science Now - Compact Seminar on Fermentation now on sale
One of the characteristics of champagne is that, unlike other great wines, it undergoes two alcoholic fermentations. If one also takes malolactic fermentation into account, it can be said that&...
11.12.2017
Champagne Duval-Leroy Vintage 1996: There is something to talk about
Champagne Duval-Leroy Vintage 1996, from one of thebest Chef de Caves. It's been a Long Time gone ...
02.12.2017
The best of the best. Useful passions 2017: Laurent Champs from Champagne Vilmart & Cie in Rilly La Montagne on the classic Cœur de Cuvée 2008
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14.10.2017
Champagne Library with Didier Gimonnet, Champagne Pierre Gimonnet & Fils
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14.10.2017
HEREN, Seoul, drinks champagne with Göldenboog
HEREN, the international chic magazine from Seoul, has often specialized in champagne in its drink column. Here, also for reasons of language didactics, the current article. More at www.heren.co.kr GOUR ...
19.08.2017
Champagne Library Report 2016
How was last year's harvest in Champagne? How was the quality of the base wines? How difficult was the work for cellar masters and winemakers on the assemblage for the non-vintage Brut? Are there any prospects of a vintage ...
02.07.2017
Antoine Malassagne, Champagne AR Lenoble, on the 2016 harvest and vintage in the Champagne Library Report
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23.05.2017
The best of the best. Useful passions 2017: Laurent Champs from Champagne Vilmart & Cie in Rilly La Montagne on the classic Cœur de Cuvée 2008
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23.03.2017
Champagne Spring
A week of exceptional tastings in Champagne From April 22 to 26, 19 groups of Champagne winegrowers will meet for a week of tastings. Each group will take over a symbolic place of...
22.03.2017
Program Champagne Week
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22.03.2017
Champagne Weeks April 22nd to 26th The program
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11.12.2016
Champagne Library: Séverine Frerson-Gomez, Champagne Piper-Heidsieck's Deputy Chef de Cave, on the latest blend of still wines from the 2015 harvest
A new face in the spotlight: Since March 2016, Séverine Frerson-Gomez has been deputy cellar master at Champagne Piper-Heidsieck. She is a true Champenois, born and raised in the region. Later she did oenology a...
30.11.2016
Sébastien Moncuit, Champagne Mailly Grand Cru's Chef de Caves, on the current blend of still wines from the 2015 harvest
Considered one of the leading Pinot Noir producers: Champagne Mailly Grand Cru. Sébastien Moncuit analyzes the still wines of the 2015 harvest on Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Channel. ...
15.11.2016
Champagne Library: Grande Année 2015? Gilles Descôtes, Chef de Cave at Champagne Bollinger, talks about his upcoming cuvées
Champagne Bollinger's Grande Année is considered one of the classic Pinot Noir oriented cuvées of Champagne. The powerful yet elegant crus of Aÿ and Verzenay form the backbone of this vintage champagne. ...
08.11.2016
Rosé champagne is as delicious as it is precious
Rosé champagne is as delicious as it is precious By Christian Göldenboog | Published on 08/10/2009 | Reading time: 5 minutes 1 of 4 Champagne Louis Roederer Brut Rosé 2003: In spring F ...
08.11.2016
Once Upon A Time
GOURMET / DRINK Oct 08, 2016 ONCE UPON A TIME The myriad of stories related to cocktails become the ingredients for beautiful ...
08.11.2016
Champagne Library: Hervé Danton, Champagne Lanson's Chef de Caves, on the latest blend of still wines from the 2015 harvest
In 2014, the legendary Jean Paul Gandon retired, since then Hervé Danton, previously Champagne Mailly Grand Cru, has been Chef de Cave at Champagne Lanson. Danton speaks in detail about the work on the diesj& ...
05.11.2016
Champagne Library: Emmanuel Fourny, Champagne Veuve Fourny & Fils, on the current blend of still wines from the 2015 harvest
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03.10.2016
Jean-Hervé Chiquet, Champagne Jacquesson, on the 2015 harvest and vintage in the latest Champagne Library Report:
I've been following the Champagne Jacquesson journey in Dizy for over 20 years - my first book on Champagne already has a lengthy chapter on Jean-Hervé and Laurent Chiquet - and it's always fascinating...
20.09.2016
Antoine Malassagne, Champagne AR Lenoble, on the 2015 harvest and vintage in the latest Champagne Library Report:
There is no question: AR Lenoble is one of those Champagne houses that has made the biggest leap forward in the last ten years. The product range was continuously realigned, but above all the Brut without year ...
19.09.2016
Anselme Selosse, Domaine Jacques Selosse, on working with the still wines of the 2015 harvest at the Champagne Library
Avize's terroirist on the wines of 2015: Anselme Selosse from Avize surfed on Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Channel. What is particularly remarkable is what he has to say about his Chardonnays of this vintage. ...
13.09.2016
First look at the 2016 harvest in Champagne
Frost and hail in spring, followed by a lot of rain, which mainly promoted powdery mildew: there were already signs of a massive crop failure six weeks ago. In some crus in the Aube, winemakers will only use 2,000 kilograms p...
10.09.2016
Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Champagne Louis Roederer's Chef de Caves, on the current blend of still wines from the 2015 harvest at the Champagne Library
A benchmark Champagne is of course Louis Roederer Cristal, both white and rosé. Will there be a Roederer Cristal Vintage 2015? Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon answers this important oenological question...
10.08.2016
Champagne Library: Cyril Brun, Champagne Charles Heidsieck's Chef de Caves, on the latest blend of still wines from the 2015 harvest
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10.08.2016
Champagne Library Report: Harvest 2015 and Assemblage
2015: drought from the end of May, stress and lack of water for the grapes, small berries. The harvest ended at the end of September: maximum yield 10,500 kg / ha, good health of the grapes, potential alcohol content between 10.5 and 11.5 volu...
10.08.2016
Champagne Library Report 2015 with Séverine Frerson-Gomez, Sébastien Moncuit, Gilles Descôtes, Hervé Danton, Benoît Gouez, Anselme Selosse, Jean-Hervé Chiquet, Antoine Mallassagne, Hervé Jestin, Cyril Brun, Emmanuel Fourny, Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon
How was last year's harvest in Champagne? How was the quality of the base wines? How difficult was the work for cellar masters and winemakers on the assemblage for the non-vintage Brut? Are there any prospects of a vintage ...
09.08.2016
Champagne Library: Moët & Chandon's Chef de Cave Benoît Gouez on the latest blend of still wines from the 2015 harvest
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08.07.2016
What do you drink before and especially after the powerful Cuvée Dom Pérignon 2006?
Vorher Champagne Jean Pernet Blanc de Blanc Grand Cru Mesnil sur Oger Dom Pérignon 2006 Nachher: Champagne Pierre Gimonnet et Fils Special Club 2005 Champagne Louis Roederer Vintagbe 2008 Champagne ...
02.07.2016
Hervé Jestin, Champagne Leclerc Briant, on Christian Göldenboog's Champagne Channel: Harvest 2015
The wind of change is blowing in Epernay at Champagne Leclerc Briant: Herve Jestin, one of the most renowned oenologists in Champagne, is now responsible for the production of the cuvées. In an interview explain...
12.06.2016
Champagne Library with Didier Gimonnet, Champagne Pierre Gimonnet & Fils, on the still wines of the 2015 harvest
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20.05.2016
The best of the best. Useful Passions 2016: Champagne Moët & Chandon MCIII, with an introduction by Benoît Gouez, Chef de Caves
This luxury cuvée has only recently been on the market and has been causing a sensation ever since. Quite rightly so: MCIII is a multivintage champagne based on an extremely complex oenological concept. vinificate ...
04.05.2016
Champagne Lanson: A Reimser Technicolor Dinner for the President
Directly from David S. Eley's Facebook page: 'A Technicolor Dinner' at Le Jardin in Reims with Champagne Lanson President Philippe Baijot and Lanson Chef de Cave, Hervé Dantan...on the occasion of the pres...
25.04.2016
The Spring of Champagnes 2016: Alle Termine
Saturday 16 April Champagne Origins Château de Pierry, Pierry 10:00-18:00 The Circle of Creators of Confidential Champagnes Théâtre Le Salmanazar, Epernay ...
01.04.2016
The Spring of Champagnes 2016: Organic Bubbles
The Bulles Bio organization is present for the first time: April 17th from 11am to 5pm at the Manège de Reims, 2 Boulevard du Général Leclerc, There will be wines to taste from: – Champagne Marc Augu ...
31.03.2016
The Spring of the Campaigns 2016: Champagne Origins
This year, the Champagne Weeks will begin with the Origines Champagne group on April 16th and 17th from 9am to 6pm at the Château de Pierry. The contestants are – Champagne Grumier – Champagne Dé...
19.03.2016
The best of the best. Useful Passions 2016: Champagne Louis Roederer Brut Vintage 2008 Rose 2010, with an introduction by Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Chef de Caves
A double feature, suitable for any mood: the strong Pinot boys from Verzy and Verzenay form the backbone of Brut 2008; a lush wine that still comes along fresh and dancing. Is it because Jean-Bapti...
29.02.2016
Michelin France 2016. Still three stars for L'Assiette Champenoise in Tinqueux, two stars for Le Crayères in Reims
The Michelin Guide has presented its new edition for France: All in all, 52 new stars have been awarded, but in the departments of Ardennes, Marne and everything remained the same. Only the Jacky Michel restaurant of the Hotel d'An ...
14.01.2016
The best of the best. Useful Passions 2016: Champagne Mailly Grand Cru Vintage Collection 1998 Magnum, with an introduction by Sébastien Moncuit, Chef de Caves
A champagne from the last millennium, in the Magnum, where it is known to mature best: Specifically, this cuvée is a wine with a high proportion of Pinot Noir from the Grand Cru Mailly in the northern Reimser Bergland. ...
25.12.2015
Greetings from Christophe Pernet, Champagne Jean-Pernet, to the Alpine Lodge, Saanen-Gstaad
Champagne, you deserve it when you win, you need it when you lose. Alpine Lodge Saanen-Gstaad goes Chamapgne: Everything you need to know about the king of wines: Champagne event reading on December 25th. with Christian Göldenboog: Tasted we ...
25.12.2015
Greetings from Jean-Claude Fourmon, Président Champagne Joseph-Perrier, to the Alpine Lodge, Saanen-Gstaad
Champagne, you deserve it when you win, you need it when you lose. Everything you need to know about the king of wines: Champagne event reading on December 25th. with Christian Göldenboog: Two wines will be tasted ...
22.12.2015
The best of the best. Useful Passions 2016: Champagne Pommery Grand Cru 2005, with an introduction by Thierry Gasco, Chef de Caves
They should be supple and lively, that is the idea of cellar master Thierry Gasco for his vintage champagnes. As always, seven Grand Crus are blended in this cuvée, half each of Chardonnay and Pino...
16.12.2015
Champagne-Christmas 2015: Which champagne fits the mood this year between Christmas and New Year's Eve?
Regardless of whether you are a diamond dealer, a football referee or even a former Helmut Newton model - what should a woman open between Christmas and New Year's Eve and even after that for champagne? In the next three weeks,...
14.12.2015
The best of the best. Useful Passions 2016: Champagne Charles Heidsieck Vintage 2005, with an introduction by Cyril Brun, Chef de Caves
The 2005 vintage is considered excellent in Burgundy and Bordeaux, but not necessarily in Champagne. And so various winemakers in 2005 did without a Millésimé, not so this famous Maison in Reims, once owned by Germans.
14.12.2015
Champagne Assemblage Library 2014 with Benoît Gouez, Champagne Moët & Chandon Cellar Master
Last but not least: Of course, the Champagne cellar masters are already tasting the basic wines of the 2015 harvest, but the 2014 Champagne Assemblage Library will be completed with Benoît Gouez, Champagne Moët & Chandon Chef de ...
07.12.2015
Champagne Assemblage Library with Thierry Gasco, Champagne Pommery Cellar Master
Thierry Gasco, winemaker at Pommery for more than 20 years, also looks back on his previous work this year in our series: working on the assemblage with the base wines from ...
03.12.2015
The best of the best. Useful Passions 2016: Champagne Joseph Perrier Cuvée Royale,Blanc de Noirs 2008 Brut Nature, with an introduction by Jean-Claude Fourmon, President, and Jérôme Dervin, Chef de Caves
A new champagne from the likeable Maison Joseph Perrier in Châlons-en-Champagne and it's right on our list of favorite wines: a trendsetter, a shooting star, even a pure Pinot Noir without any dosage and a monocru on top of that...
29.11.2015
Régis Camus, Chef de Cave Champagne Piper-Heidsieck: What are we drinking in 2012?
Director Camus has been responsible for the wines of Champagne Piper-Heidsieck for two decades, and in the interview he reviews his work so far this year: The assemblage of the base wines from the year 20 ...
14.11.2015
Hervé Jestin on his work with Champagne Leclerc Briant
The wind of change is blowing in Epernay at Champagne Leclerc Briant: Herve Jestin, one of the most renowned oenologists in Champagne, is now responsible for the production of the cuvées. In the interview ...
09.11.2015
After more than 30 years of Champagne life: Jean-Paul Gandon retired
No malolactic fermentation or waiver of malolactic fermentation - this is one of the distinctive features of Champagne Lanson in Reims. Meanwhile, the long-time legendary ...
15.10.2015
Harvest 2015 Champagne: First impressions
Sunny spring, flowering was complete by mid-June, followed by one of the hottest summers ever - many winemakers associated the climatic conditions of 2015 with those of 2003, 1976...
30.09.2015
Grande Année 2014? Gilles Descôtes, Chef de Cave at Champagne Bollinger, talks about his upcoming cuvées
Champagne Bollinger's Grande Année is considered one of the classic Pinot Noir oriented cuvées of Champagne. The powerful yet elegant crus of Aÿ and Verzenay form the backbone of this vintage champagne. ...
29.09.2015
Harvest 2015 Champagne: First impressions
Sunny spring, flowering was complete by mid-June, followed by one of the hottest summers ever - many winemakers associated the climatic conditions of 2015 with those of 2003, 1976 or even 1947. A ...
23.09.2015
Old Bottles Never Die: AR Lenoble 1990 Gentleman
A Blanc de Blancs made from grapes from the Grand Cru Chouilly. The hype about the 1990 vintage in Champagne usually seems exaggerated to me, like 1996, the 1988 vintages, for example, have held up better over time and ...
24.08.2015
Jean-Hervé Chiquet, Champagne Jacquesson, on the harvest and the 2014 vintage
I've been following the Champagne Jacquesson journey in Dizy for over 20 years - my first book on Champagne already has a lengthy chapter on Jean-Hervé and Laurent Chiquet - and it's still fascinating...
06.08.2015
Will there be a Roederer Cristal Vintage 2014? Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Chef de cave Champagne Roederer, on the 2014 harvest
Champagne Roederer's own vineyards cover more than 200 hectares, almost 70 hectares of which are now cultivated biodynamically. Cellar master Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon is very proud of the fact that Roederer i...
03.08.2015
Champagne AR Lenoble: focusing on the Brut Intense
There is no question: AR Lenoble is one of those Champagne houses that has made the biggest leap forward in the last ten years. The product range was continuously realigned, but above all the Brut without year ...
21.07.2015
Les Crayères, Reims: Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée 1989, disgorged at this time
The culinary hot spot in Reims is Les Crayeres, a two-star Michelin restaurant with a very lavish Champagne menu. Also drink-friendly calculated, a good cuvée is available from 60 euros. However, ...
06.07.2015
Always on the move with organic chic: Champagne Leclerc Briant, Epernay
It is now generally accepted that Champagne has been in a state of upheaval for some time. Winegrowers are becoming more and more present and, unlike the movement 20 years ago, they are merging into organizations. The ...
16.06.2015
Sebastian Moncuit von Champagne Mailly Grand Cru über die Ernte 2014
Compared to other cooperatives, Champagne Mailly Grand Cru is rather small: almost 500,000 bottles are produced from 70 hectares of vineyards, and the cooperative founded in 1929 currently has 83 members. Your trump card is the Rebf...
05.06.2015
Stephen Leroux on the past and future of Champagne Charlie Heidsieck
Not quite 20 years ago, Charles Heidsieck was one of the top producers in Champagne, both in terms of quantity and quality. But even the traditional world around Reims and Epernay is constantly changing, ...
27.05.2015
Champagne Assemblage Library: Bruno Paillard on the 2014 harvest, Drosophila suzukii and a vintage Blanc de Blancs
More or less from scratch, Bruno Paillard, who started out as a courtier, has made his own Maison famous with flair and skill. On the outskirts of Reims, he has built his buildings where everything is very ...
08.05.2015
The Champagne Festival in New York City
Peter Liem and Daniel Johnnes are presenting their La Fête du Champagne this year on November 7th in New York City. Some of the producers involved are: Agrapart Maison Bérêche Billecart-Salmon Ch...
07.05.2015
Moët & Chandon's Chef de Cave Benoît Gouez on the exotic 2006 Grand Vintage
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06.05.2015
Empty bottle: Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage 2006
2002 (for its freshness) and 2008 (for the quality of its still wines) are considered the best vintages of the new millennium. In the meantime, however, the wines from 2004 (fresh and light) and 2006 have also proved to be a positive surprise.
05.05.2015
The champagne makers - Frequently Asked Questions
All answers to important questions such as "What does the size or fineness of the coals say ...
14.04.2015
Champagne Weeks: Events, Wednesday April 22nd
The focus of Wednesday is the tasting of Club Trésors de Champagne from 10am to 5pm at the Demeure des Comtes de Champagnes in Reims The group's winemakers: Champagne Paul Bara Champagne Roland Champion Champagne Ga...
13.04.2015
Champagne weeks, events, Tuesday April 21st
On Tuesday, April 21st, the wines of Les Artisans du Champagne can be tasted between 10am and 5pm at the Château des Crayères in Reims. The following winemakers are part of this organization: Champagne Maillart Champ ...
07.04.2015
New cellar master for Champagne-Charlie
Cyril Brun will become the new cellar master at Champagne Charles Heidsieck on May 25th. He will then succeed Thierry Roset, who died unexpectedly last year. Champagne friends know Brun as an eloquent oenologist from the ...
31.03.2015
Champagne Weeks Events Monday April 20th
Terres et Vins de Champagne has chosen a new location for the tasting: April 20th from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm at the Palais du Tau in Reims. The winemakers: • Champagne Agrapart et Fils • Champagne Francoise Bedel • Champagn...
30.03.2015
Benoît Gouez on the Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage 2006
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26.03.2015
Champagne Weeks Events Saturday and Sunday 18th and 19th April
As in previous years, there will also be various salons in Champagne this April in which mostly winegrowers will present their products. It starts on April 18 and 19, Saturday and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Château de Pierry with ...
14.03.2015
Where is the best place to buy my champagne?
You don't buy champagne like frozen food, flat screen TVs or Dutch tomatoes. You buy champagne more like books. You approach him like you're flirting. Buying champagne, this is the beginning of a friendship relationship, the k ...
25.01.2015
2015 Year of Champagne - But the most sophisticated New Year’s card came from Monsieur Pierre Lurton.
The French have the curious tendency to send their New Year's cards in the middle of January, so I waited. But after 499 vœux de bonne année I made my decision: the most stylish card came from Monsieur Pierre Lurton and Château d'Y ...
22.01.2015
Champagne Lanson: Jean-Paul Gandon and Hervé Dantan in search of absolute freshness
Assemblage is the search for freshness. Anyone who, as a cellar master, is looking for complete freshness on the palate combined with a good portion of vibration, has modern cellar technology, which is important but rarely used in Champagne.
28.12.2014
Champagne event reading with tasting - Hotel Alpine Lodge Gstaad-Saanen, on December 28th
Today, Sunday, December 28, 5:00 p.m., there will be a champagne event reading with tasting - Hotel Alpine Lodge Gstaad-Saanen with Christian Göldenboog and Champagne Lanson and Champagne Besserat de Bellefon. More at Alpine Lodge Blog. ...
16.12.2014
With the ovipositor against the wine: Drosophila suzukii
Fruit flies are not only a popular laboratory animal for geneticists, but also widespread in nature: 800 different species have been counted in Hawaii alone, and around 50 in Europe. One characteristic of these animals is that ...
15.12.2014
Champagne Cattier, Jay-Z, Ace of Spades and Monsieur Brignac
Nobody, really nobody knew a champagne called Armand de Brignac, until - yes, until rapper Jay-Z at the end of his "Show Me What You Go" video a waiter who wanted to serve him a bottle of Roederer Cristal with a wave of his hand. ..
29.11.2014
Club Trésors de Champagne presents the 2009 vintage
Twelve winemakers from a total of 26 in the Club Trésors de Champagne now presented their Cuvée Spécial Club from the 2009 vintage. The wines, especially Chardonnay and Meunier, showed potential and were easy to drink. All in a...
02.11.2014
Current figures for champagne sales
The latest figures from the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne for the month of August still point to a mood of ambiguity in the European Union. In August 2014, 20.4 million fl ...
27.10.2014
Fine: How Wine Prospers - About Filtration
A great wine is made 90 percent in the vineyard, the rest is "controlled doing nothing", that's the much-quoted motto of renowned winemakers, but even they have to give their young children exact instructions after successful fermentation ...
24.10.2014
Young Champagne Talents
The Jeunes Talents du Champagne competition took place for the third time at Champagne De Castellane in Epernay. The organizers are the Comité Départemental du Tourisme de la Marne and Dites Nous Tout Production ...
21.10.2014
Mongolia accepts Champagne appellation
Mongolia, the sympathetic parliamentary democracy geographically sandwiched between neighbors Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south, has now decided that bottles labeled Champagne can actually be ...
20.10.2014
Harvest 2014 Champagne: Concentrated overview
Initial estimates speak of an exceptionally good harvest for Chardonnay, outstanding to very good for Pinot noir and average for Meunier. In general, the harvest was quite plentiful, so selecting out...
18.10.2014
Inhaltverzeichnis The oenological discourse
Aus dem Inhaltsverzeichnis 3 Le discours oenologique3.1 Die ewige Perlenschnur 54Jacques Péters, Charles Delhaye, Dominique Demarville Champagne Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin3.2 Die hohe Kunst der Assemblage 60Dominique Demarville Champagne Veuve ...
11.10.2014
In Memoriam Thierry Roset, Cellar Master Champagne Charles Heidsieck
Thierry Roset passed away on Sunday October 5th at the age of 55. Born in Sezanne, the oenologist only received keys as cellar master from Champagne Charles Heidsieck in 2012. Before that, he worked for decades in...
24.09.2014
Philippe Starck, Frédéric Rouzaud and Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon present new Champagne Roederer Brut Nature 2006
French designer Philippe Starck, Frédéric Rouzaud, Managing Director Champagne Louis Roederer and Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon, Chef de Caves, toast their new collaboration. For the first time, Cha ...
23.09.2014
Save the Date: Champagne: Bio Bulles am 13. Oktober in Reims
Champagne Fleury, Leclerc-Briant and Marguet are among others at this salon. An exact list of participants will soon be available at champagne-biologique.org. Additional information is available at www.biochampagneardenne.org ...
07.09.2014
Champagne harvest 2014: How much can really be harvested
There is always confusion about the maximum crop yields in Champagne, also because it is possible to form so-called reserves, the importance of which is rarely explained to the astonished public by the appropriate authority ...
18.07.2014
Sulfur - The deviled element
Anyone who is currently blogging, writing or debating on the subject of sulfur and wine does not primarily mean the non-metallic chemical element called S, which makes up almost 0.05 percent of the earth's crust, but sulfur dioxide, i.e. ...
16.07.2014
Between Polisot, Mussy and Gyé sur Seine: Côte des Bar's Champagne Festival on July 26th and 27th
The Wine growers of the Côte des Bar are in the midst of preparing one of the major events in the Champagne Region, The Champagne Tourist Route Festival. This festival started in 1995, now 30.000 visitors are expected. Organized by the associat ...
15.07.2014
The oenological discourse
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01.07.2014
The champagne makers I: Anselme Selosse The terroirist from Avize
Anselm eSelosse from Avize is one of the few winemakers who early on had a precise understanding of champagne as a wine, of prestige and rarity and of the importance of a wooden cask for an exceptional ...
22.06.2014
June 2014: Perfect flowering in Champagne
The storms regularly passed the region this year. Once it rained heavily in the west, another time in the east. And so the winegrowers in the Champagne region are currently wearing their widest smiles on their faces: Lots of sun, lots ...
25.05.2014
Gangasrotogati and Kurmagati with Facebook and Champagne Göldenboog
The remarkable thing about Facebook right now is that after the 1000th friend request, all friends are questioned, just like Friedrich Nietzsche did in "Beyond Good and Evil" (1886): "It's difficult to be understood: bes...
10.05.2014
Clones: The Most Natural Thing in the World - column in the new FINE
The fact that cloning is normal in grape varieties but not in mammals is related to specific genetic characteristics of the plants. Their ancestors were algae, they moved in a watery environment. The transition to...
15.04.2014
Champagne Göldenboog with Vin Clair Series
This week is also the start of the New Vin Clair Series. Renowned Winemakers evaluate the still wines from the harvest 2013. Check out the opinions of Benoît Gouez (Moët & Chandon), Cyril Brun (Veuve Clicquot), Thierry Gasco (Pommery), ...
07.04.2014
New Winemakers' Circle Origines Champagne on April 12th and 13th in Pierry.
On Saturday April 12th and Sunday April 13th, champagne and base wines can be tasted by following winemakers: - Champagne Maurice Grumier (Venteuil) - Champagne Déhu (Fossoy) - ...
06.04.2014
TRAIT - D - UNION Champagne – ROGER COULON, EGLY-OURIET, JACQUESSON, DOMAINE LA CLOSERIE, LARMANDIER-BERNIER, SELOSSE
Tasting: Monday 14th of April in Ambonnay The participants are:DOMAINE ROGER COULON - Isabelle and Éric COULONDOMAINE EGLY-OURIET - Annick and Francis EGLYDOMAINE JACQUESSON Jean-Hervé and Laurent CHIQUETDOMAINE LA CLOSERIE - Agnès ...
05.04.2014
Treasures of Champagne Club with Gimonnet, Mousse, Goutorbe, Hébrart
The current members are: • Pierre Gimonnet et Fils • Vincent Joudart • Gaston Chiquet • A. Margaine • Roland Champion • Goutorbe Pere et Fils • Fresnet Juillet • Joseph Loriot-Pagel • Duménil • J. Lass ...
19.03.2014
SNEAK VIDEO PREVIEW: Benoît Gouez, Chef de Cave Moët & Chandon, on the new Vintage 2006
The Grand Vintage Reserve 2006 will be released soon, and in this video Benoît Gouez talks about the history and the expectations of this Millésimé. ...
15.03.2014
Champagne Generation with Joseph LORIOT PAGEL, André ROBERT, Jacky CHARPENTIER
Génération Champagne is a group of 12 winegrowers:Champagne Herbert BEAUFORTChampagne J.CHARPENTIERChampagne Stéphane COQUILLETTEChampagne ...
11.03.2014
Bollinger, Jacquesson, Seleque and Charles Heidsieck at Prowein 2014 in Düsseldorf
Almost a hundred champagne producers have announced their attendance at this year's Prowein between March 23rd and 25th. The tips for fast drinkers are: RD Bollinger 2002 at the Grand Cru Select stand (Hall 04 / F94), Cuvée 737 v...
11.03.2014
“Terroirs & Talents” was yesterday, “Les Mains du Terroir de Champagne” is here to stay
Les Mains du Terroir de Champagne 2014 - Champagne: Sunday, 2014 April 13, from 10h-18h - Monday, 2014 April 14, from 10h-14h. 15 vignerons, each with at least three Champagnes and some still wines from the harvest 2013.The growers: ...
10.03.2014
The Artisans of Champagne with Pierre Péters. Vilmart, Lancelot Pienne at Château Les Crayères
This is a very interesting mix of well known and rather unknown growers. The participants are: • Champagne Nicolas Maillart (Ecueil)• Champagne Pierre Paillard ...
09.03.2014
Lands and Wines of Champagne - Tasting: Monday 14th of April at Castel Jeanson, Aÿ
Monday, 14th of April from 9.30 to 17h00 With Champagnes from: Pascal Agrapart • Françoise Bedel • Raphaël Bérèche • Francis Boulard • Alexandre Chartogne • Vincent Couche • ...
09.03.2014
GREAT CHAMPAGNE DAYS 2014 – 13. bis 16. April
As in previous years, the Champagne Primeurs will take place in mid-April. Among the now established tastings such as Terroirs & Talents (recently: Les Mains du Terroir), TRAIT - D - UNION Champagne, Terres et Vins and Les Artis ...
20.02.2014
Let the right one slip in: New Champagne Facebook Page with a Theory of Everything E = Champagne
Once Morrissey sold condoms with an imprint "Let the right one slip in" - this will be also the natural motto of the upcoming Champagne Facebook page. ...
16.01.2014
Château Fuissé: Pouilly-Fuissé Old Vines
17 wines from Château de Fuissé, a renowned but still often underestimated winery in Burgundy, were recently tasted in Wiesbaden as part of a FINE tasting: Specifically, it was about the Pouilly-Fuiss&eacut ...
14.01.2014
J.B.S Haldane on fermentation and Louis Pasteur (a polemic)
The following is an excerpt from J.B.S. Haldane The Origin of Life, first published 1929 in The Rationalist Annual. Until about 150 years ago it was generally believed that living beings were constantly arising out of dead matter. Maggots were supos ...
13.01.2014
Confusion over fermentation: What did Louis Pasteur really say?
Champagne is a unique wine which undergoes a unique two fermentation process. So it is rather legitimate to throw some questions on fermentation in. My new book Die Champagner-Macher (in German) has two chapters devoted to this delicate topic, one de ...
12.01.2014
Eduard Buchner, 1897: Alcoholic Fermentation Without Yeast Cells
Alcoholic Fermentation Without Yeast CellsPreliminary Note, received 11 JanuaryUntil now it has not been possible to separate fermenting activity from living yeast cells; the following describes a procedure that solves this problem. One thousand gram ...
11.01.2014
THE CHAMPAGNE-MACHER - The special features
Christian Göldenboog & Oliver Rüther &nb ...
10.01.2014
What do you actually drink with a lobster?
"A rosé," explained the host, and threw the animals into the boiling water. A rosé for the pink lobster - everyone was surprised, because Bordeaux and Barolo lovers consider the usual rosé ...
31.12.2013
Wine connoisseur asks: What's the point of sex when there's champagne?
More on the subject of "The champagne makers" can be found in the review that Jens Priewe published in Weinkenner some time ago. Adequate reading for the year 2014, as well as this internet portal in general. &n ...
28.12.2013
The favorite is called Magnum: Happy New Year
Which bottle format is best for us? This topic is dealt with in the current issue of FINE 3-2013: Of course, the French were the first to make their own decisions about the models, shapes and capacities of their wine bottles...
04.11.2013
Blurring for the champagne makers: Dominique Demarville and Wilhelm Weil
"My expectations of this book: It will make me dream about magical carbon dioxide bubbles. This is what defines the mighty terroir of Champagne: delicate wines with the finest bubbles."Dominique Demarville, Che...
03.11.2013
New book enters new wine paths: The Riesling - Weingut Robert Weil
Quality comes from tormenting yourself ... ... says someone who should know: Wilhelm Weil. He is a man who appreciates tradition while at the same time constantly pushing progress. At a time when disorientation i...
07.08.2013
FINE II-2013: Wine knowledge column about the various bottle caps
Everyone talks and writes about the economy of winegrowers, wine producers or trading houses, but supplier industries such as tanks, presses, bottles, labels and of course closures are big business. The global mar...
25.05.2013
Or would you rather collect stamps? Manuela Lenzen on The Hole in the Whale
Or would you rather collect stamps? Christian Göldenboog explains why understanding life has nothing to do with physics In the summer of 1932, physicists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr and "a surgeon named C...
23.03.2013
How does it look? Moët & Chandon Rosé 1878
The star of the cellar: Rosé 1878. ...
23.03.2013
Once in a lifetime: Benoît Gouez shares Moët & Chandon Rosé 1878 and 18 other wines
„We are going to open 19 different wines; there will be a Rosé from 1949 and a Bouzy Rouge from 1929. And then we have something special, something older. Are you coming?" asked Benoît Gouez, Moët & Chandon's cellar master ...
17.03.2013
Roscoff pink onion cooked carbonara, royale with smoked bacon II
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Eric Frechon: Roscoff pink onion cooked carbonara, royale with smoked bacon I
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Eric Frechon: Bresse chicken supreme II
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Eric Frechon, Head of Kitchens Hotel le Bristol, Paris
Roscoff pink onion cooked carbonara, royal with smoked bacon I Roscoff pink onion cooked carbonara, royal with smoked bacon II Supreme of Bresse chicken cooked in yellow wine, pear maki ...
17.03.2013
FINE I-2013: Column on the function of yeasts
"Just as yeast converts sugar or starch into wine or beer, as it gives champagne its bubbles and bread dough its fermentability, it has given us biochemists a fundamental understanding of the molecular...
17.03.2013
HANDCRAFT GOES DISCO on a winter day February 2013 with Hervé Jestin at Château d'Avize: Snow cold Champagne going violent.
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17.03.2013
Jérôme Prévost: What to drink on Hermitage 2009
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HANDCRAFT GOES DISCO
Like any other wine champagne benefitted from the enology innovation of the late 1960ties. But nevertheless there is still some artisan and handcraft involved. For example if Benoît Gouez, Chef de Cave at Moët & Chandon since 2005, sh ...
16.03.2013
Handcraft goes Disco II
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Eric Frechon: Bresse Chicken Supreme I
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Lands & Wines of Champagne in April 2013
This year's Terres et Vine Degustation takes place on the 22th of April at as usual the Hotel Castel Jeanson, Aÿ, from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registration will be available under http://www.terresetvinsdechampagne.com. These vignerons, many of them ...
02.03.2013
Les Artisans du Champagne - Tasting: Tuesday 23th April in Reims, Château Les Crayères
This is a very interesting mix of well known (Hebrart and Vilmart) and rather unknown growers. Noteworthy I: last year there was one negoce with the group, Alfred Gratien (Epernay), who left the group. Noteworthy II: Two growers (Margaine and Hebrar ...
28.02.2013
Trait-d-Union 2013 Tasting: Anselme Selosse and friends are going to Andalucia:
This year Trait-d-Union makes the link with 6 Jerez wine makers: Save the date, Sunday March 17th, and got go to Andalucía for the 2013 trait-d-union tasting: Champagne and Jerez.Trait-d-Union is an association of six sophisticated Champagne ...
23.02.2013
Opus One Revisited: Michael Silacci and the secrets of a laboratory
Two years ago I wrote an article (in German) in praise for the 2006 vintage of Opus One: I claimed that it is much better for one's personal mood to buy expansive wines than the investment funds of the local savings bank. Precise in mind I had the A ...
16.02.2013
Water over Champagne
Not the Gironde but the Marne River after heavy rain and snow. Left one can see the Clos de Goisses. Fortunately for the population town and country planner left enough space between the river and the housing areas. ...
16.01.2013
And on with champagne in Deidesheim and Freundstück
"We want to make Deidesheim and the Freundstück restaurant the champagne center of Germany", is the ambitious motto of managing director Alexander Hess and author Christian Göldenboog. After the successful ...
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Wood or Steel: A Matter of Style - Column #4 in FINE
In general, oxygen or O2, which is molecular oxygen that makes up 20 percent of our air, is considered a pest in the vinification of white wines. We all know the sight of a glass of oxidized wine, already...
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14.01.2013
Compact seminar in 2013: On the trail of the so-called world formula - How many carbon dioxide bubbles are there really in a bottle of champagne?
A new compact seminar in the series "Happy Science Now" delves into this question, which is so important for all fermentation fanatics. This is also urgently needed, counting the bubbles is en vogue: Is the foaming ...
27.12.2012
Harvest 2012, grapes, prices, quality
This year's average yield in Champagne is said to be 9242 kilograms per hectare, not bad when you think of the negative forecasts that made the rounds in the region in 2012: temperatures of around -20 degrees Celsius followed in winter ...
02.12.2012
Give me champagne when I'm thirsty
On 29th of November the Rolling Stones played the second of two shows at London's O2 Arena in celebration of the band's 50th anniversary. Eric Clapton joined in, playing on "Champagne and Reefer", Muddy Waters' classic blues number that begins with t ...
30.11.2012
The most frequently asked question of the last two months: when will the new champagne book come out?
It can only be a matter of weeks as we are still fine-tuning it. As can be seen here: In the relatively new tasting room of Champagne René Geoffroy in Aÿ there was still a lot of work that is of course currently in the ...
29.11.2012
Deidesheim and Freundst?ck become a champagne center
"We want to make Deidesheim and the Freundstück restaurant the champagne center of Germany," is the ambitious motto of managing director Alexander Hess and author Christian Göldenboog. The first result, the ...
29.10.2012
Germany Premiere: November 9, 2012 - Deidesheim Freundst?ck goes Champagne - Jacquesson in the Freundst?ck restaurant of the Hotel Ketschauer Hof
Germany Premiere November 9, 2012 Deidesheim Freundstück goes Champagne Champagne Jacquesson in the Freundstück restaurant at the Hotel Ketschauer Hof We are proud to be able to offer you an evening in a class of its own. For the first time...
20.08.2012
Poor harvest prospects in Champagne
Frost, hail, rain, mildew - the winegrowers in Champagne have seen everything they would like to avoid this year. There is even talk of the most catastrophic and turbulent year ever. Above all, temperatures around freezing ...
23.05.2012
OLD CHAMPAGNE BOTTLES NEVER DIE: How does a Veuve Clicquot from circa 1841 discovered in a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic sea in July 2010 really taste?
Madame Clicquot, née Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, also known as Widow Clicquot lived from December 1777 until July 1866. She was a remarkable Champagne technology innovator as well as a profound business woman with a unique expertise on the importa ...
22.05.2012
Frost in Champagne
The frost damage that Austrian and German vineyards suffered this week is already over in Champagne: in the night of April 16 to 17, ten percent of the buds in the region were destroyed. Before a...
14.04.2012
Bordeaux Vintage 2011 - Primeur Tastings 2012
Heterogeneity is the key word for the Bordeaux Vintage 2011, and therefore heterogeneities were the smiling faces at this year's primeur week - due to the weather: Hot spring, dry July, more rain than usual in August and a heavy thunderstorm on the 1 ...
13.04.2012
Why please, is this about concrete, Monsieur Pierre Lurton?
Just like Petrus, the Cheval Blanc winery vinifies in concrete tanks. Of course, the difference is that the Petrus tanks are 40 years old, which Pierre Lurton bought last year as part of the renovation of the winery for 13 million euros in ...
12.04.2012
Champagne Terroirs and Talents - Champagne Tasting: Sunday 15th of April in Epernay
14 winegrowers, each with three Champagnes and some clear wines from the harvest 2011. The growers:Champagne De Sousa (Avize)Champagne Maxime Blin (Trigny)Champagne Coessens (Fouchères)Champagne Jacques Copinet (Montgenost)Champagne Aspasie (Bro ...
12.04.2012
T R A I T - D - U N I O N Champagne - Tasting: Monday 16th of April in Avize
Surprise, surprise: On the same day when the Terres et Vins de Champagne tasting takes place, Corinne and Anselme Selosse and friends show their wines in Avize. The participants are: DOMAINE ROGER COULON - Isabelle and Éric COULON DOMAINE EGLY ...
11.04.2012
New series in FINE The Wine Magazine: How wine thrives
In the first part of a new series by Christian Göldenboog entitled "How wine grows" in issue I/2012 of FINE Das Weinmagazin, the various aspects of cold maceration in Pinot noir are discussed. In focus: winemaker Pau ...
10.04.2012
Lands and Wines of Champagne - Tasting: Monday 16th of April in Ay
20 vignerons, many of them present the elite of organic or bio-dynamic, show their Champagnes and some vins clair from the harvest 2011: Champagne Horiot (Les Riceys)Champagne Agrapart (Avize)Champagne Françoise Bedel (Crouttes-sur-Marne)Champ ...
09.04.2012
Les Artisans du Champagne - Tasting: Tuesday 17th April in Reims
This is a very interesting mix of well known (Hebrart and Vilmart) and rather unknown growers. Noteworthy I: One negoce is with the group, of course Alfred Gratien (Epernay), who presents sophisticated wines fermented in oak barrels. Noteworthy II: T ...
28.03.2012
Frederic Panaiotis, Chef de Cave Champagne Ruinart, on the Dom Ruinart 2002 and Dom Ruinart 1998 Ros
2002 is a top vintage in Champagne, along with 2008: sunny spring, hot summer with some rain at the end of August, but during the harvest the fresh wind typical of the region and dry weather made for ...
27.03.2012
Time is the essence: The 2002 Champagne Dom Ruinart as a reminiscence to Jean-Fran?ois Barot
Jean-François Barot (Photo by Oliver Rüther) was a classy man: Marathon man - he never drank wine four weeks before a competition - as well as chef de cave from 1985 to the year 2002 at Ruinart, the oldest Champagne house, thus responsibl ...
25.03.2012
Champagne summer seminars: the buds are budding, the feelings are boiling, spring and summer are just around the corner, as every year, more or less energetic
In order to detoxify the body in a timely and contemporary manner after the Pinot Noir winter, especially in February, www.goeldenboog.de offers a champagne workshop for spring and summer: Discover the variety ...
16.03.2012
Champagne Bottle Empty: Krug Clos d'Ambonnay 1998
Granted that a single bottle of Champagne is not much for five people, but there is an exception with the Clos d'Ambonnay 1998: This is rare gold and bottle and glasses are empty with Arnaud Lallement, the best chef of northern France, from the L'Ass ...
08.02.2012
Jean-Baptiste Lecaillon (Champagne Louis Roederer) on Vines and the Weather in 2011 ? a Complicated Year for Wine-Growers!
2011 will be a year to be remembered for its back-to-front seasons. At first, the wine-growing year got off to a very typical start with a cold, harsh winter. December saw an average sub-zero temperature of -0.5 °C, compared to the previous ten-y ...20.11.2011
Where is the Blaufränkisch journey really going? Big tasting for the German Fine magazine
Amongst others, there will be wines from winegrowers such as Paul Achs, Birgit Braunstein & Martin Pasler, Weingut Esterházy, Weingut Weninger and 24 other winegrowers. More on that in the December issue of Fine. ...
20.11.2011
For What It's Worth? Champagne Prestige Cuvées: Champagne Pommery Cuvée Louise 1998, Dom Pérignon Vintage 2002, Louis Roederer Cristal 2004
Great tasting in Wiesbaden « Villa im Tal », organized by Ralf Frenzel and the german edition of Fine Magazine: 30 Champagne, mostly prestige cuvees like Dom Pérignon 1996 Oenothèque, Dom Ruinart 1998, Dom Pérignon Ro ...
29.08.2011
Yo man, bubbly! Jay-Z and his Champagne secret: Armand de Brignac and more
And here's what's up with Jay-Z, his Roederer bash and Monsieur Armand de Brignac. ...
24.07.2011
Champagne Viticulture speech: Jean-Baptiste Lecaillon from Champagne Roederer on a year of contrasts
Vines and climate 2010 Winter was especially cold, marked by hard frosts that interfered with Pinot growth throughout the season. Freezing temperatures destroyed some of the vines and buds, leading to very uneven physiological development that had r ...
23.07.2011
Juli 2011, Paris, at the Jules Verne: Mathieu Kauffmann, Chef de Cave Champagne Bollinger, presented twelve R.D.'s and our old friend Epicurus was smiling:
The journey through half a century of récemment dégorgé startet with the vintage 1997 and ended with 1952. Very astonishing the freshnesh of the 1966, 1961 and 1959. Reason enough to discuss with Mathieu the old Epicurus question ...
04.06.2011
Discours Viticulture Champagne 2011 ? The Chiquet-Brothers from Champagne Jacquesson are talking about time, change and the future
Jean-Hervé (left, Photo: Oliver Rüther) und Laurent Chiquet are one of the trendsetters in the Champagne region. They both answered some questions on the Champagne Appellation in March 2011. ASSEMBLAGE: What is the biggest challenge work ...
15.05.2011
LARMANDIER-BERNIER: Good luck in Champagne
This is what happens when you strong enough to survive the May 2011 frost in Champagne. ...
14.05.2011
LARMANDIER-BERNIER: Bad luck in Champagne
And, of course, here we are with the bad luck in chardonnay country - minus one Celsius is enough to kill the potential future grapes. The two shots were taken by Pierre and Sophie from Champagne Larmandier-Bernier. This grower is based in Vertus, bu ...
01.04.2011
Enough with the terroir
complained Liquid-Sky-Man HO Spaniards in the world on Sunday of 3/27/2011. One does not have to agree with the Hessian winegrower, who has attracted my attention in recent years with his idiosyncratic wines, quite the opposite, but the stilis ...
27.03.2011
Attention baby! Bottle empty at Prowein on March 27: Champagne AR Lenoble Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs
And if you want to know exactly: this year this wine is available in Hall 6, Stand L 24. If you live near Essen, a World Heritage Site, Ente Lippens and the Georg Melches Stadium, you can taste this champagne thanks to the dedicated Weinh ...
25.03.2011
Champagne Philipponnat revisited (II): Ahh, the Clos des Goisses
On a cold February day in 2011 Charles Philipponnat stays on top of a real Champagne clos. The 2000 vintage is just released but because of the unique minerality which this cru brings into Pinot noir there is this urgent suggestion: Buy it but storag ...
23.03.2011
Champagne Philipponnat revisited (I)
Thierry Garnier, Chef de caves, and Charles Philipponnat tasting still wines from barriques in their winery in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ. Their résumé: 2010 was good harvest, despite the rather small crop due to botrytis. With Champagne Phili ...
21.03.2011
With Bolly Bollinger in Palatine
Currently the hot spot for Bolly Bollinger is in Palantine is the restaurant Freundstück at the hotel Ketschauer Hof in Deidesheim. Bolly is the house champagne - perfect for an aperitif to buy time for browsing the immense wine list - her ...
20.03.2011
Clos de Goisses
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19.03.2011
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13.03.2011
Opus One 2006
"It doesn't get any better: Life as a gourmet" was the sympathetic motto in the style section of the world on Sunday, March 13, 2011, and Bottle empty addressed the fact that it made more sense even for economic reasons ...
20.02.2011
News from the steep Moselle
... and the winery Fritz Haag and its Brauneberger Riesling 2009. ...
14.02.2011
SWAN - The ready-to-use decanter from the film - but how is it cleaned without becoming a psychopath?
This highlight of Austrian mouth-blowing art was actually designed for champagne, but the true connoisseur also likes to decant an aromatic Muscat sparkling wine from the Schneeweiss winery in Weissenkirchen, Wach ... in this decanter ...
