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A beginner’s guide to perpetual champagne

A beginner’s guide to perpetual champagne

A growing number of producers are blending significant portions of their reserve wines together, creating what they call a perpetual reserve.

Bottles of Pierre Peters’ flagship champagne in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, France, created from perpetual reserve wines. The New York Times

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All that most people need to know about champagne is how to safely uncork a bottle. Pouring and savouring the wine are the easy parts.

Few champagne drinkers will interrupt their holiday celebrations to dwell on the laborious process of creating this wine, which can feel so elegant, refined and delicious.

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