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Moët Hennessy has bought Montaudon Champagne, a family run business founded in 1891 and based in Reims. The company produces a high quality champagne and exports to 25 countries. Moet Hennessy say the acquisition will help to increase their Champagne reserves as well as adding to the portfolio of prestigious brands which include Dom Pérignon, Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Krug, Ruinart and Mercier.
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.
Prices of top Champagnes are shooting up despite the economy heading the other way.
Supermarket chain Asda is reporting an increase in sales of Champagne which they say bucks the overall market trend of decreasing sales.
Champagne shipments worldwide are falling as Champagne enters its most important trading period.
Moët Hennessy has acquired Montaudon Champagne to add to their portfolio of prestigious brands.
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 has overtaken Italy as the world's biggest producer but in Champagne yields are to be cut to stabilise prices.
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.
Lidl cuts the price of Champagne to under £10 a bottle and other supermarkets discount heavily.
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.
The 2011 harvest has started early in Bordeaux and Champagne.
Decanter magazine's first-ever panel tasting of grower Champagnes concludes that grower champagnes have character, sophistication and are good value for money.
7.2% weight reduction in standard 75cl Champagne bottles sold at Tesco
Pierson Whitaker Grand Cru Champagne house has partnered with English landowners in Hampshire to produce a sparkling wine called Meonhill.
Sparkling wine sales are outperforming Champagne in the off trade.
Early budding vines in Champagne spurred on by a warm March are hit by April frost.
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.
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.
Mintel report shows 36% of sparkling wine consumers say there is little difference between Champagne and Prosecco.
China has agreed to protect the name Champagne so that only wines produced in the French region can bear the name.
Christmas deals in the wine aisles begin.
Global sales of Prosecco have overtaken Champagne.
Immigrant workers found living in exploitative conditions but there to work the champagne harvest.
Champagne volume and value sales are up driven by exports.
ThirtyFifty customers give their views on English Wines
Burgundy, Champagne and Forth Bridge all given World Heritage status
Roberson Wines delists major champagne brands
Champagne producer Michel Drappier has made the first vintage of Pinot Gris Champagne at his property in the Aube.
Australia, New Zealand and Prosecco grow at the cost of traditional rivals
Champagne economy majorly affected by weather
Sparkling wine sales grew by 9% in the last year.
Scientist discovers blue cloud of gas escaping Champagne bottle when opened at a warmer temperature.
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.
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.
The recent Russian law has left Champagne companies flat and banned them from using the term Russian word for Champagne, shampanskoye.
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%.
Hybrid grape variety Voltis has been approved for use in Champagne vineyards.
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.
A bad week for Champagne as grape pickers are rescued from people traffickers and the drink is ranked as overrated.
Moët Hennessy has acquired Montaudon Champagne to add to their portfolio of prestigious brands.