Learn about Champagne and the Champagne Region

What does a bottle of Champagne really cost? We break down what sits inside the price, what you get under 40, between 40 and 100 and over 100 euro, and when a higher price genuinely means better wine.

Buying Champagne online and having it delivered across Europe: what applies to shipping within the EU, what heat and packaging actually do to a bottle, and how to recognise a merchant who genuinely knows their Champagne.

How long does Champagne last? Unopened it keeps for years, opened usually two to three days. We explain whether Champagne can go bad, whether to store it upright or on its side, and how to tell when a bottle is past its best.

Sekt or Champagne? The difference is not just where it comes from, but the method, the ageing and the yield. We explain what you actually taste, and why Winzersekt is the best possible introduction to grower Champagne.

The best grower champagne under 40 euro in our range. Real families, real terroir, everyday prices. Where to start and what to expect in the glass.

Prestige and vintage grower champagne without the big-house markup. The top cuvees in our range, what makes them special, and how to choose one.

The organic and biodynamic growers in our range, from Avize to the Aube and Luxembourg. What the farming means, and why it shows up in the glass.

Zero dosage and extra brut grower champagne explained, and the producers we stock who do it best. What dosage is, how it tastes, and where to start.

The grower Blanc de Blancs in our range, from Avize chalk to Montgueux and the Aube. Who makes it, where it grows, and how to choose your first bottle.

Koningsdag is loud, warm, generous, and completely unpretentious. Champagne, in the popular imagination, is neither loud nor unpretentious. That is precisely why it fits.

That decision is called assemblage, the French word for the act of assembling a champagne from its component wines. It is the invisible craft at the heart of the category, and it is the reason two bottles from the same region, in the same year, can taste like completely different wines.

This guide flips the usual order. Instead of grouping our growers by village or grape mix, we group them by taste signature. Read the bucket that matches what you like in a glass.

Every bottle we send has a face behind it. Not a marketing face, not a brand ambassador with rehearsed lines about heritage and tradition, but a real person who walks the same rows of vines every winter and decides, alone or with family, when to harvest, how to press, whether to add sulphur and how much. That is what we work with. That is what changes the taste in the glass. The formal name for this approach is Récoltant Manipulant, French for "grower who makes his own wine."

There are older champagne houses than Jacquesson, but very few still belong to the family that runs them, and almost none have done what the Chiquet brothers did in 2000.

Among the three regions of Champagne, the Marne Valley is the one most drinkers underestimate. The Côte des Blancs gets the mineral reputation.

Every year Jacquesson releases one main champagne with a new number on the label. This year the number is 748.

The Côte des Bar sits in the Aube département, one of the three regions of Champagne alongside the Montagne de Reims and the Vallée de la Marne. Historically the poor cousin, geographically closer to Burgundy than to the champagne heartland, the Aube has quietly become the most interesting corner of the appellation.

This article explains what Crémant d'Alsace actually is, how it differs from champagne in ways that matter, and why we import three specific producers. If you want a bottle that behaves like champagne but tells a different story in the glass, this is the category.

That is the kind of private champagne tasting we host in Amsterdam and across the Netherlands, and this page explains what actually happens when you book one.

you can pick a champagne shop on the Netherlands that treats the wine and the box like they matter. Here is what champagne delivery in the Netherlands looks like from our side of the operation, and what to expect no matter who you buy from.