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We may not be able to travel right now, so we have brought Champagne to you. Both of our producers this month are first and foremost EXCLUSIVE to Champagne Club members and these have been shipped in especially for you.The theme this month is 'The Dark Knights' which looks at two producers Perseval-Farge and Benoit Déhu that use both Pinot noir and Meunier (the two black grapes) in their reflective wines.Please take the time out to watch the video, enjoy your champagne and see our full review.

Welcome back for another edition of the Champagne Club. We have chosen in our minds two producers that go above and beyond to bring you their wines and we get right into what makes them different and look at their amazing wines. First up is the highly respected grower - Pascal Doquet based the in premier cru village of Vertus. Other notable producers in this village are Larmandier-Bernier, Duval-Leroy, Veuve Fourny and Andre Jacquart. His wines are all about terroir expression and using plant management to govern the soil. He has been certified organic since 2010 but it's more than...

This month is about history, more specifically the grape variety history of Champagne. Many of you are well aware of the three most popular varieties, Pinot Noir (38%), Meunier (32%) and Chardonnay (29.7%) in order of most grown. The other four are; Pinot Gris (aka Fromenteau), Pinot Blanc (aka Blanc Vrai), Petit Meslier and Arbanne. All are white varieties and they make up less than 0.3% of plantings. Throughout our communication, I have gone into detail about each variety, to give you a clearer understanding of what they look like, taste like and touch on why many of them fell out...

We have a chunky edition this month, where we take a bite out of a famous region in champane known as the Côte des Blancs and zone in on a Grand Cru village known as - Cramant. We talk about the 'Butte de Saran' (pictured above) which in geology terms is named an 'outlier' and is formed from millions of years of erosion around it. The result is a raised block of land that has vineyards wrapped around it like a cloak. Each side of the 'Butte de Saran' can face either East, West, South or North, with the most prized...