SLP’s Top 12 Wines of 2025
2025 was a year with some great tastings, showing that fine wine continues to be hugely attractive. My selection is very classic…
The art of No-Dosage at Gosset and Louis Roederer
Champagne loses volume after disgorging, i.e., the removal of residual yeast after bottle fermentation. This must be replenished, and traditionally this is…
Portrait: Champagne Penet-Chardonnet
History Two winemaking families’ stories come together in the champagnes under the name Penet-Chardonnet. First, there’s the Chardonnets (which, by the way,…
Portrait: Champagne Roger Coulon
History The Coulon family has been rooted in the so-called Petites Montagnes south-west of Reims since the 17th century. The family first…
The crisis as an opportunity. A conversation with Frédéric Rouzaud and Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon
SLP: French viticulture is in crisis. But it’s not just the entry-level segment that is currently affected, but also the luxury segment.…
Portrait: Champagne Valentin Leflaive
History If you want to know what Champagne Valentin Leflaive aspires to, you have to go back to the end of the…
Création No. 1: the new prestige cuvée by Moët & Chandon
The ambition was clear: Collection Impériale Création No. 1 was to be nothing less than the quintessence of Moët & Chandon’s style.…
Pol Roger: 175 years of excellence
An invitation from the German importer Véritable made it possible for me to visit the Maison for the first time in July…
SLP’s Top 5 Falstaff Champagne Gala 2024 in Berlin
Only two more stations – in addition to Berlin also Hamburg on the following day – and only 16 individual exhibitors in…
Portrait: Champagne Philippe Gonet
History Viticulture in the Gonet family goes back a good 200 years. A legacy that has been passed down from father to…
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