Extreme drought prevailed in Champagne from March to August 2015. This means: the lowest rainfall ever recorded between budburst and picking, and at the same time the highest average daily temperatures. The year was a…
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As a professional critic, you drink a lot of good wines over the year. Especially if you write for “Fine” and run…
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In the eighties, no Champagne brand was more attractive to me. The bottle with the “Cordon rouge”, the red ribbon of the…
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Raw, or French cru, is not necessarily a positive category in traditional French high culture. Uncooked foods such as salads or raw…
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When Sébastien Visentin of Vin sur Vin Diffusion invites guests, even prominent French winemakers make their way to the Spree. Visentin’s range…
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Champagne had a difficult year in 2020 and a sensational year in 2021. In view of the continuing capacity bottlenecks at many…
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Launched in 2007, Bar Convent Berlin with its mix of congress and trade fair is now one of the world’s most important…
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The first wine was the Brut “sans année” of the house. There would be little to write about this if Roederer had…
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Martin Maria Schwarz, editor of HR2, the cultural program of Hessischer Rundfunk, conducted a one-hour interview with Stefan Pegatzky of Sur-la-pointe.com. At…
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This already started with the packaging. Or rather the packagings: For the Dom Ruinart 2010 came in a solid, foldable cardboard construction.…
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