Published: 09 October, 2026
“My grandfather lived until 90 and passed away in 2003 and never experienced an August harvest. But this is the sixth August harvest in the last decade,” Gilles Dumangin of Champagne Dumangin told me as I witnessed first hand the earliest harvest on record. This had been an extraordinary year. 2026 had started with a warm winter that triggered early budburst, followed by spring frost, severe summer drought and five heatwaves. And, as Champagne Ayala’s cellar master Julian Gout put it, climate change sceptics should “come and see for themselves”.
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Published: 16 September, 2024
Specialist wine importer, Hallgarten & Novum Wines, is continuing the steady expansion of its French portfolio with the addition of Champagne Palmer. Available immediately to the UK hospitality and retail sectors, the new addition is part of a significant business expansion plans in 2024 to boost Hallgarten’s trade offer, with a host of new additions being announced in recent weeks.
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Published: 13 December, 2019
The ongoing nationwide French strikes, combined with declining tourist numbers, are causing misery for Paris' restaurant and bar sector, according to Champagne Palmer's communication manager Francois Demouy.
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Published: 20 February, 2019
Champagne Palmer & Co has unveiled its new state-of-the-art winery located outside of Reims and close to the house’s Grand and Premier Crus vineyards in the Montagne de Reims.
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So, it’s au revoir to Monsieur Paillard, for 20 years the President of the Commission for the Protection of Champagne. He has thrown his toys out of the pram at the news that Champagne Palmer has signed an exclusive distribution deal in the US with Constellation Brand’s fine wine division.
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