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What is a ‘perpetual reserve’? – Ask Decanter
Champagne expert Giles Fallowfield explains this particular way of ageing reserve wines...
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Champagne 2021 harvest: Picking nears end as growers weigh losses
How the harvest is looking on the ground...
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Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque: brut vintage and blanc de blancs vertical tasting
The purest expression of Perrier-Jouët style...
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How Champagne 2020 wines are shaping up
Giles Fallowfield reports from a 'vins clairs' tasting with top growers...
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Relaunch: Charles Heidsieck Mis en Cave Champagnes
Giles Fallowfield reports on a vertical tasting of Charles Heidsieck's re-released 'Mis en Cave' Crayères collection - a Champagne that was a radical concept when first pioneered.
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Wild west: Australian Wines
As Australia's regional styles get more defined, Western Australia emerges as an area of varied and maybe confusing traits. Giles Fallowfield reports
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Finding the fizz: the Champagne Millennium
As clocks chimned in the new millennium, party revellers drank more Champagne than ever. Giles Fallowfield tells how the Champenois met the demand.
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Italy: Forgotten World
Roman ruins, medieval city states and a vibrant cuisine are among the treasures of central Italy's largely undiscovered Marche region. GILES FALLOWFIELD reports on his own grand tour.
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Gascony: The Great Wine Route
Tucked away in southwest France, with no major cities, airports or motorways, Gascony is the perfect place to get away from it all – once you’ve got there yourself. By GILES FALLOWFIELD
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Champagne for Visitors: Reims
Can you save money by travelling to Champagne to buy your fizz? Not always, says Giles Fallowfield, but you can visit the great houses, and discover new names.
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The Region of Champagne: In Focus
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Champagne region: Lovely bubbly
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Priorato flourish
It's 20 years since a small group of winemakers took a huge risk in the remote Spanish mountains. Today, as GILES FALLOWFIELD discovers, the Priorato DO is flourishing
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The perfect blend of non-vintage Champagne
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Henri Krug dies
Henri Krug, former head of Champagne Krug, has died of cancer aged 76.
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Veuve Clicquot to age Champagne in Baltic Sea
Veuve Clicquot has buried 300 bottles and 50 magnums of its Champagne in the Baltic Sea in an ageing experiment designed to commemorate the discovery of shipwrecked bottles in the same area in 2010.
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Champagne 2011 harvest could be earliest since 2003
August holidays have been cancelled in Champagne in anticipation of a very early harvest, possibly the earliest on record – especially if the warm weather of March to the end of May continues.
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Champagne sales down for 2012
Champagne shipments will fall by around 3% in 2012 back to the level of 2005 and 2006.
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Champagne 2013 harvest yields under pressure
Champagne is the latest region of France to see its 2013 harvest come under pressure from rot, but there is a mixed picture with picking only just underway in several key areas.
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Champagne yield set for 2013 harvest
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Christmas Champagne offers 2006
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Champagne house Roederer looks at English vineland
Top Champagne house Louis Roederer – maker of Cristal - has been looking round vineyards in Kent and Sussex with a view to producing English sparkling wine in the future.
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Champagne prices to rise by as much as 10% next year
A rise in the cost of Champagne grapes will lead to price hikes for all Champagnes in the UK next year.
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Champagne shipments and exports hit new high
Exports of Champagne grew for the seventh year in succession - and reached a record high last year.
