Each champagne was tasted with the following criteria in mind: Tasting process: Each bottle was chilled in the fridge to ...

Maximilian Riedel has a mission: to rid the world of champagne flutes. “My goal is to make them obsolete within my lifetime,” ...

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A French Classic With a Sparkling TwistCoq au vin is a dish steeped in French tradition, but this version swaps the usual red ...

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California's new wave of sparkling wines is hitting its stride. These bubbles are rising to the top not because they taste like Champagne — but precisely because they don't.

Wines made by the Champagne method tend to be more elegant, and maybe a little more formal, although it’s certainly not hard to find harsh, coarse Champagnes.

To make the Champagne, wine from the perpetual reserve, stored in steel vats, is blended with wine from a base vintage, in this case 2017, along with other reserve wines stored in oak.

Although not cheap, other Champagne houses make even more expensive wines: Louis Roederer’s Cristal, Salon, Taittinger’s Comtes de Champagne, Krug and the ubiquitous but overrated Dom Perignon.

Sparkling wine is so much more than champagne. Here are other bubbles to consider. December 2, 2021 (Scott Suchman for The Washington Post/food styling by Diana Jeffra for The Washington Post) ...

French wine accounts for $9.6 billion in exports, equaling 16% of all global wine sales, according to ClimateAI. In 2021, champagne growers saw their smallest harvest since 1957 due to extreme ...

Nearly 80 million bottles of cheap American sparkling wine are labeled as Champagne each year. This is why it needs to stop – and what the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin du Champagne is doing ...