Sugar and spice are nice, but you prefer a bit more ‘brut’ with your Valentine’s Day sparkle, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn that Champagne Rosé is often drier than its golden counterpart. Sweeter rosé styles exist, of course,…
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Posted on 2025.02.06 in France, Champagne, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...
“The best fertilizer is the winemaker’s shadow.” Nowhere does this aphorism hold truer than in Nantoux, Burgundy, where Boris Champy carries on an endless quest to reveal the soul of each vineyard plot, the spirit of each grape variety and…
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Posted on 2025.01.27 in Pommard, Beaune, Côte de Beaune, France, Burgundy, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...
Saturday Sips: In-Store Tasting: Bubbles (What Else?) to Ring In the New Year It’s easy to think of Champagne as a spiritual substance; after all, it was created by monks and the very airiness of its identity seems celestial. The cornerstone of…
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Posted on 2024.12.27 in France, Saturday Sips Wines, Spain DO, Champagne, Wine-Aid Packages, Cava  | Read more...
JOIN THE CHAMPAGNE SOCIETY Subscribe to our bimonthly Champagne Club. Please, call us at 248-398-0030 or email elie@eliewine.com As a member of The Champagne Society, you’re in a select community of like-minded folks who appreciate the exceptional in life and…
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Posted on 2024.12.03 in France, The Champagne Society, Champagne  | Read more...
Champagne Pascal Lejeune’s Terroir Fundamentals Preserving a Place’s Details and a Vine’s Finger Print in a Single Premier Cru Village The Coteaux Sud d’Épernay Premier Cru Pierry In Two Bottles ($103) Champagne Pascal Lejeune ‘N°4 – OXYMORE’ Blanc de Noirs…
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Posted on 2024.12.02 in France, Saturday Sips Review Club, The Champagne Society, Champagne  | Read more...
Climate change gets a lot of ink in this newsletter, and there’s a reason for it: Consistently elevated temperatures and unpredictably violent weather is having a profound effect on some of the world’s most celebrated wine regions, and the new…
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Posted on 2024.11.01 in Côte de Beaune, Monthélie, Auxey-Duresses, Saint-Romain, France, Burgundy, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...
In a small estate that is closer to Paris than to Reims, Françoise Bedel has managed a remarkable feat: She has turned an acute family illness into a paradigm shift for much of the Champagne region. From the village of…
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Posted on 2024.10.04 in France, Champagne, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...
Recently, Elie Wine Co. had the good fortune of hosting author, speaker, wine educator and videographer Dr. Matt Horkey, who was kind to film a segment for his YouTube channel right here in the shop. Entitled ‘Why is French Wine…
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Posted on 2024.10.03 in Cahors, France, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...
Ponce de León went to Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth and came up empty. Perhaps he’d have been better off focusing his sights on the Côte des Bar, where a new generation of cellar masters are currently…
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Posted on 2024.09.05 in France, Champagne, Wine-Aid Packages  | Read more...
Touraine may not grab the vinous headlines of, say, Sancerre or Vouvray, but in ways it is the aesthetic paradigm for the region: Made of castles and gardens and vineyards lining the capricious and majestic Loire from Anjou in the…
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Posted on 2024.07.25 in Touraine, Coteaux-du-Loir, Cheverny, Coteaux-du-Loir, Cour-Cheverny, Touraine Azay-le-Rideau, France, Wine-Aid Packages, Loire  | Read more...