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Champagne Domaine Vincey: delivering cuvées of rip-roaring drinkability and delight!

August 7, 2022

In 2010, Quentin Vincey, 8th generation vigneron, took up the family mantle and, with the help of his partner Marine Zabarino, quickly set out to...
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The value and verve of grower champagnes

April 14, 2022

You may recall a few months ago when we debunked the myths surrounding a widely purported ‘champagne shortage’ in Australia. We encouraged champagne lovers not...
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The Perfect Summer Send-off

March 11, 2022

This weekend marks the long weekend Labour Day holiday for those of us in Victoria and Tasmania. Rather serendipitously, it’s coincided with a glorious forecast...
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Celebrating the new: Champagne Pierre Gerbais

December 31, 2021

Without tradition, there is no innovation. Without the past, there is no future. This grounding sentiment was echoed, etched into the palate and stored deep...
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‘Terroir’, Uninterrupted: Champagne Nicolas Maillart

November 19, 2021

‘Wine is a reflection of terroir—and the person doing it’—Nicolas Maillart If wine is a work of art and the winemaker the artist, it is...
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Sally Hillman’s Top Ten Champagnes of 2021

October 30, 2021

It’s hard to believe we are fast approaching the penultimate month of the year already. As family and friends reunite across the country, we have...
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Jump into Spring with Jean-Marc Sélèque

October 9, 2021

It is with familiar, gentle comfort that we revisit good friends and uncover delicious gems. Founded in 1965, Champagne JM Sélèque has been under the...
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Presenting Louis Roederer Collection 242: ‘the multi-vintage of the 21st century’

October 2, 2021

The latest release of Collection 242 heralds a new era of innovation and progress for Champagne Louis Roederer—a powerhouse that continues to champion the grower-producer...
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Reserve Wines: Champagne’s nest egg for a rainy day

August 28, 2021

What is reserve wine, and what role does it play in Champagne? As a cool continental climate prone to Mother Earth’s mercurial and ruthless nature,...
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Grower-producer v's Grande Marque: What's the diff Grower-producer v's Grande Marque: What's the difference?

At Sally Hillman we consider there are two broad categories of champagne; one is produced on a large scale by the well-known Grandes Marques, the other category consists of the grower champagnes, also known as récoltant manipulant champagnes.

Grandes Marques (‘Great Brands’), largely drive Australia’s champagne market. As the most prominent Houses, the Grandes Marques have a long history of wine production in Champagne, achieving fame and fortune through the creation of non-vintage champagne blends that remain consistent in style each year. Their success lies in delivering a reliable experience for the consumer and in promoting aspirational ideals of luxury, celebrity and celebration that have been heavily marketed for the past two centuries.

Grower champagnes are produced by the growers themselves (also called grower-producers), who pride themselves on creating champagnes from vines that are exclusively their own. These Houses are family-owned and operated, and estate holdings are generally no more than a few hectares, passed down from generation to generation. Their aim is to craft wines from low yields and sustainable farming practices, vinified using natural, low-intervention winemaking processes that hone in on site-specific expressions of fruit, terroir and vintage.

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Champagne and cheese is the perfect marriage in ga Champagne and cheese is the perfect marriage in gastronomy and will always dazzle and delight, no matter the occasion, season or even time of day! 

Whether you prefer to indulge in a moment of late winter sun, drift into afternoon aperitifs or pamper yourself with weekends full of comfort cuisine and party-pleasing platters, ‘brie-lieve’ us when we say there is a delicious duo of champagne and cheese that exists for every feast from breakfast through to dessert. 

Read on, we promise it doesn’t get much ‘cheddar’ than this!

Our Le Journal article ‘Sweet Dreams are Made of Cheese … and Champagne!’ Can be found at the 🔗 in our bio.

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Making plans to entertain friends this weekend? Making plans to entertain friends this weekend? 

The invigorating character and effervescence of champagne makes it an ideal aperitif or food companion for many appetisers, cuisines and even for sweet treats.

We warmly invite you to pop a bottle in the fridge and preheat the oven as we explore the best food partners for different types of champagne in our Le Journal article, ‘Champagne, Chips and Culinary Combinations’.

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Bon week-end! Celebrating the finish of yet anoth Bon week-end!

Celebrating the finish of yet another busy week! 🥂🍾

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Domaine Vincey 'Interlude' NV Lemon gold in colou Domaine Vincey 'Interlude' NV

Lemon gold in colour, Interlude NV pours forth with an intriguing fragrance of stone fruit, garden blossom, lanolin and dried honey. 

On the palate, the cuvée is immensely textural and rich, peeling back to reveal fleshy layers of papaya and ripe orange with waxy highlights—natural, like the coating of orchard apples, and delicate, like honeycomb, chewy with beeswax. 

There’s a distinctive, uplifting note of creamy lemon-lime on the mid to late palate, reminiscent of lemon myrtle, as a clear line of minerality builds into the orchestrally long finish. 

A most successful maiden voyage for Interlude NV. 

Interlude NV was manually disgorged in December 2021 and finished with zero dosage. 

Only 1238 bottles were produced.

🥂 Best enjoyed from the Lehmann F. Sommier, Dionysos 66 Ultralight machine-made glass.

🍽 🧀 Enjoy with creamy and savoury cheeses, such as an ashed goat’s cheese or a mild and meaty washed-rind cow’s milk cheese.

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🍷Lehmann F. Sommier Ariane 72cl Perfect for li 🍷Lehmann F. Sommier Ariane 72cl

Perfect for light-bodied red wines with floral notes, such as Burgundy, Pinot noir, Gamay and Nebbiolo.

These wines are delicate with ethereal aromas, which means the glass must have a relatively fuller and wider bowl than both ‘Bordeaux’ and ‘standard’ red wine glasses. 

A wider bowl enhances aeration to develop the lighter aromas, allowing them to collect at the gently inward sloping rim. 

The body of the glass should also be relatively shorter than both the ‘Bordeaux’ and ‘standard’ red wine glasses to allow for the detection of more subtle, fragrant aromas due to the nose’s proximity to the wine.

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