Champagne Quotes

“the team at Bérêche prefers to physically handle each bottle to ensure that none of them contain cork taint or any other deviations before leaving the cellars.”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

“Bérêche produces about eighty-five thousand bottles a year, yet the house still disgorges its bottles entirely by hand.”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

“What I’ve found is that in more delicate vintages, the wine benefits a lot from long lees aging and a late disgorgement,” he says. “But in ripe years, the earlier disgorgements can often show better.”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

“We realized that we were intentionally making the blend less good,” says Jean-Hervé Chiquet, “and that made no sense.” Realizing that blending to suit a predetermined style meant producing inferior wine, the brothers began to question the value of consistency. For”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

“The first time in the modern era that a single-vineyard site in Champagne was showcased in this fashion was 1935, the year Pierre Philipponnat purchased a vineyard on an unusually steep slope overlooking the Marne River (see this page). Philipponnat was so convinced of the vineyard’s quality that he began making a single-vineyard champagne that year, naming it after the site, the Clos des Goisses.”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

“Today, the Champagne region is a strictly defined area of France and the viticultural appellation encompasses 320 villages in five different départements: the Aisne, Aube, Haute-Marne, Marne, and Seine-et-Marne.”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

“In 1905, the French government drew up the first law addressing the regulation of the origin and composition of wine, which was followed by a 1908 law allowing for regions to set boundaries to ensure the provenance of products.”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

“There is no substitute for travel when it comes to learning about wine,”
― Peter Liem, Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region