Champagne

Acker Merrall & Condit, the world’s premier wine auction house, announced today that it surpassed the world auction record for a bottle of Champagne, selling a bottle of shipwrecked Veuve Clicquot for $43,630. The landmark sale took place today in Mariehamn, Åland, where Acker Merrall auctioned two of the world’s oldest bottles of Champagne salvaged […]

Remy Cointreau has sold the entire share capital of Piper-Heidsieck to EPI. The luxury brand of Champagne’s turnover was 103.6 million euro in the year up to March 31, 2011, which was an increase of 7.2%. On top of the full payment of the debt owed to the Remy Cointreau Group by the companies sold

Renowned wines and spirits logistics expert JF Hillebrand, which has been entrusted with shipping the world’s oldest bottle of Champagne to the London International Wine Fair, is also using the event to showcase its supply chain management services for wines of more recent origin. The bottle of 18th Century Champagne, believed to be from the

Moet Hennessy has signed a joint venture deal with a Chinese company to make high-end sparkling wine on the Chinese mainland. The deal will expand the country’s wine market by educating the public and wine producers in sparkling wine, observers said. Moet signed the deal earlier this month with state-owned agricultural company Ningxia Nongken to

For all champagne lovers Henry Tuke has just launched the world’s most expensive Champagne sabre which is an exquisite piece launched in the gardens of Champagne house Canard-Duchêne in Ludes, France. During the launch, Tom Tuke-Hastings, founder of the brand, sabred 35 bottles of Canard-Duchêne Champagne in one minute which broke the previous world record