The Winery Charles Heidsieck of Champagne

Winery Charles Heidsieck - Blanc des Millenaires Millésime Brut Champagne
The winery offers 21 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is ranked in the top 24 of the estates of Champagne.
It is located in Champagne
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The Winery Charles Heidsieck is one of the world's great estates. It offers 21 wines for sale in of Champagne to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Charles Heidsieck wines

Looking for the best Winery Charles Heidsieck wines in Champagne among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Charles Heidsieck wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Charles Heidsieck wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Charles Heidsieck

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Charles Heidsieck

How Winery Charles Heidsieck wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of rabbit in sauce, marinated raw salmon ('gravad lax' in swedish) or cuttlefish rust from my grandmother in sète.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Charles Heidsieck

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Charles Heidsieck. often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, blood orange or game and sometimes also flavors of salt, raisin or nutmeg. In the mouth the sparkling wine of Winery Charles Heidsieck. is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Charles Heidsieck

  • 1983With an average score of 4.73/5
  • 1995With an average score of 4.59/5
  • 1981With an average score of 4.55/5
  • 1989With an average score of 4.54/5
  • 1985With an average score of 4.53/5
  • 1851With an average score of 4.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Charles Heidsieck.

  • Chardonnay
  • Pinot Noir
  • Pinot Meunier

Discovering the wine region of Champagne

Champagne is the name of the world's most famous Sparkling wine, the appellation under which it is sold and the French wine region from which it comes. Although it has been used to refer to sparkling wines around the world - a point of controversy and legal wrangling in recent decades - Champagne is a legally controlled and restricted name. See the labels of Champagne wines. The fame and success of Champagne is, of course, the product of many Complex factors.

Yet there are three main reasons we can be reasonably certain of. First, the large bubbles, which distinguish it from less "exciting" wines. Second, the high prices that champagne commands, which give it a sense of exclusivity and uniqueness. Third, two centuries of clever marketing to a willing and very receptive consumer base.

The top red wines of Winery Charles Heidsieck

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Charles Heidsieck

How Winery Charles Heidsieck wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of sauté of pork with cider, penne with smoked salmon and crème fraiche or paella from an old spanish grandmother....

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Charles Heidsieck

Planning a wine route in the of Champagne? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Charles Heidsieck.

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Charles Heidsieck and wines from the region

Champagne houses announce ‘first’ with B Corp certification

The Champagne houses, part of the family-owned EPI Group, announced their B Corp certification after scoring 91.9 points in the assessment by B Lab, a non-profit network founded in 2006 with the aim of improving corporate performance in the spheres of social and environmental issues, plus accountability and transparency. The certification involves an assessment of the social and environmental impact of each brand through more than 200 questions concerning governance, employees, communities and t ...

EPI purchases Super Tuscan producer Isole e Olena

The De Marchi family established the 56ha estate back in 1956, and it is now firmly established as one of the region’s leading producers. Isole e Olena played a key role in reviving the quality of Chianti in the 1970s, and its flagship wine – Cepparello, a barrique-aged Sangiovese from old vines – is regarded as one of the original Super Tuscans. A Piedmont lawyer called Francesco De Marchi founded the business, but his visionary son – Paulo De Marchi – has driven its rise to prominence. He is r ...

Long Read: Wine had a past with sailboats. Does it have a future too?

In 2007, Frenchman Frédéric Albert founded the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV) with the goal of decarbonising the wine industry. The firm managed to sail its 50m-vessel four times from France to Ireland, England and Canada, before going into liquidation as a consequence of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite the failure, Albert’s pioneering project was a sign for things to come. In 2013, Le Havre-based TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT) followed in CTMV’s footsteps sailing some 3 ...

The word of the wine: Hautain (en)

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