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Interviews and News for Champagne
UK Wine Show 173 Champagne Closures with Roger Begault of Duval-Leroy
Champagne house Duval-Leroy is experimenting with a new type of closure to replace the traditional champagne cork. We catch up with Roger Begault to find out more.
Prestige fizz getting pricier
Prices of top Champagnes are shooting up despite the economy heading the other way.
Asda Champagne sales are up
Supermarket chain Asda is reporting an increase in sales of Champagne which they say bucks the overall market trend of decreasing sales.
Champagne exports falling
Champagne shipments worldwide are falling as Champagne enters its most important trading period.
Moët buys champagne house
Moët Hennessy has acquired Montaudon Champagne to add to their portfolio of prestigious brands.
Champagne sales hit Majestic
Majestic Wine has reported a 2.9 per cent fall in like-for-like sale for the ten weeks ending January 5, triggered by a fall in Champagne sales.
France is world's number one but there is trouble in Champagne
France has overtaken Italy as the world's biggest producer but in Champagne yields are to be cut to stabilise prices.
Bubbles hold the flavour of fizz
It's the bubbles that give Champagne its flavour confirming the long-held view that Champagnes with a fine and persistent mousse, or stream of bubbles, are of a higher quality.
Sub £10 Champagne
Lidl cuts the price of Champagne to under £10 a bottle and other supermarkets discount heavily.
Champagne increases yield to meet demand
The permitted yield of grapes for the upcoming harvest in Champagne is to be increased to 12,500 kilogrammes per hectare (kg/ha) to cope with growing demand for Champagne.
Harvest underway early in France
The 2011 harvest has started early in Bordeaux and Champagne.
Decanter hosts panel tasting of grower Champagnes
Decanter magazine's first-ever panel tasting of grower Champagnes concludes that grower champagnes have character, sophistication and are good value for money.
Tesco lightweights champagne bottles to help the environment.
7.2% weight reduction in standard 75cl Champagne bottles sold at Tesco
Quick the French are coming!
Pierson Whitaker Grand Cru Champagne house has partnered with English landowners in Hampshire to produce a sparkling wine called Meonhill.
Sparkling wine from across the world makes a splash in the UK
Sparkling wine sales are outperforming Champagne in the off trade.
Champagne crops hit badly by frost
Early budding vines in Champagne spurred on by a warm March are hit by April frost.
Australia has best growing season in decades while Champagne has one of the worst
Australia is set to benefit from the best growing conditions in the past twenty years but Champagne has seen the worst growing season in decades.
Champagne shipments dip thanks to the French
The volume of Champagne shipped in 2012 was 14 million lower than 2011 thanks to a slump in Christmas trade and a decline in Champagne sales in France itself.
A third of drinkers can't tell difference between Prosecco and Champagne
Mintel report shows 36% of sparkling wine consumers say there is little difference between Champagne and Prosecco.
China to protect the Champagne name
China has agreed to protect the name Champagne so that only wines produced in the French region can bear the name.
The Xmas build up begins with discounted Champagne under £10
Christmas deals in the wine aisles begin.
Prosecco sales bubble over as Champagne falls flat
Global sales of Prosecco have overtaken Champagne.
Immigrant workers in Champagne region exploited
Immigrant workers found living in exploitative conditions but there to work the champagne harvest.
Champagne exports set to outstrip domestic sales
Champagne volume and value sales are up driven by exports.
Still 30% of UK wine consumers haven't tried English Wine.
ThirtyFifty customers give their views on English Wines
What links the Forth Bridge and Champagne?
Burgundy, Champagne and Forth Bridge all given World Heritage status
Online retailer of the year delists big name champagnes
Roberson Wines delists major champagne brands
Drappier makes 'extreme' Champagne using single varietal Pinot Gris
Champagne producer Michel Drappier has made the first vintage of Pinot Gris Champagne at his property in the Aube.
What's hot, what's not in the wine world?
Australia, New Zealand and Prosecco grow at the cost of traditional rivals
Bad weather gives Champagne nothing to toast about
Champagne economy majorly affected by weather
Sparkling wine sales continue to climb
Sparkling wine sales grew by 9% in the last year.
Blue wine, now blue fizz, but you’ll have to look fast
Scientist discovers blue cloud of gas escaping Champagne bottle when opened at a warmer temperature.
Bubble size, now they can measure it with a microphone
If Champagne bubble size is important to you, and for some it is, then you will be relieved to know that the bubbles hum as they are formed, telling the listener how big they are.
Buried Champagne from the 1890s tasted for the first time, and the conclusion?
Champagne producer Pol Roger whose cellar collapsed in 1900, burying up to to 1.5 million bottles, has this week opened and tried two of the recently recovered bottles.
Russia forces Champagnes to be re-labelled Sparkling wine in Russia
The recent Russian law has left Champagne companies flat and banned them from using the term Russian word for Champagne, shampanskoye.
Champagne 2021 vintage looks tough
The weather in 2021 has simply not played ball with French producers. The Champagne region was hit badly by frost, hail and persistent mildew as well as spring rain which has resulted in yields expected to be down by 45%.
Champagne approves new hybrid variety Voltis
Hybrid grape variety Voltis has been approved for use in Champagne vineyards.
Champagne finishes early harvest as UK starts
Just as Champagne's last grapes have been picked, the UK is gearing up for its harvest, with picking times getting earlier in the season for all producers.
Bad press for Champagne
A bad week for Champagne as grape pickers are rescued from people traffickers and the drink is ranked as overrated.