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The first five issues of The
Champagne Warrior Newsletter have rolled off of the cyberspace presses. It has been a long journey, but I hope you
find the end result worthy of the wait.
Each issue of The Champagne Warrior Newsletter will have producer
profiles and tasting notes as its core, but will also feature vintage
reviews, current happenings in Champagne, and peaks into upcoming releases
and new producers. So far, through five issues, the
following has been published: ·
In-depth profiles on numerous
producers ·
Reflections on Champagne vintages ·
Discussion of the issues affecting
Champagne ·
Over 1225 Champagne and sparkling
wine reviews ·
Over 650 pages of information The key features in each issue
published to date are below: Issue
1 (January 2009) ·
Top Wines & Review of the 1996
Vintage ·
Profile on Henri Billiot ·
Laurent-Perier’s Grand Siecle Policy Issue
2 (April 2009) ·
The Champagne AOC Expansion ·
Champagne and the Economic Crisis ·
Profile on Alexandre Chartogne ·
Rising Quality at Mumm ·
In-Depth Feature on the Sparkling
Wines of Michigan, New York, & Virginia Speical
Bonus Issue 2.5 (June 2009) ·
Profile on Ayala – They’re Back! ·
Updates on Mumm and the 1998 Rene
Lalou ·
Champagne Vintage Reviews 1959-2008 Issue
3 (July 2009) ·
Feature on Bollinger’s Vieilles
Vignes Francaises and Krug’s Clos du Mesnil ·
Profile on Pierre Peters ·
A review of the 2008 Champagne
vintage Issue
4 (November 2009) ·
Profile on the Dom Ruinart Cuvees ·
Features on Henri Giraud and
Drappier ·
A Closer Look at Paul Bara,
Diebolt-Vallois, Pierre Gimonnet, A. Margaine, & Jean Milan ·
The Latest Happenings in Champagne
and the Status of the 2009 Vintage Issue
5 (February 2010) ·
Four Decades of Jean Laurent ·
Bereche: 2009 Champagne Producer of
the Year ·
Vilmart's Coeur de Cuvee ·
Moet's Grand Vintage ·
Cedric Bouchard ·
Pascal Doquet ·
Making Champagne More Consumer
Friendly ·
Phenolics and the 1996 Vintage ·
A Conversation with Olivier Krug I invite you to give the newsletter
a try as I think you will enjoy it. In
fact a trial issue is available for only one dollar with no further
obligations. Just click here to
go to the Subscribe page and request a copy. For anyone who would like their
wines sampled and reviewed, please send me an email
and we’ll coordinate the details.
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