Charles Heidsieck

Pale gold in the glass with crystalline highlights, fine and persistent bubbles. The nose opens on white peach, candied citrus, honeysuckle and fresh hazelnut, underpinned by a chalky mineral thread. On the palate, the attack is pure and precise, with a remarkable silkiness that carries through to a…

The structure of this champagne

TASTING NOTES

Pale gold in the glass with crystalline highlights, fine and persistent bubbles. The nose opens on white peach, candied citrus, honeysuckle and fresh hazelnut, underpinned by a chalky mineral thread. On the palate, the attack is pure and precise, with a remarkable silkiness that carries through to a long, lemony and lightly buttery finish.

The composition

About this house

Founded in 1851 by Charles-Camille Heidsieck — a Reims-born adventurer who became known as 'Champagne Charlie' across the United States — the house is celebrated for its crayères, two-thousand-year-old Gallo-Roman chalk galleries where its cuvées mature well beyond the legal minimum, developing that unmistakably generous and indulgent house style.

Now under the stewardship of the Descours family (EPI) and guided by chef de caves Cyril Brun, Charles Heidsieck wears its identity with confidence: ripe, expressive wines enriched by abundant reserve wines. Its Blanc de Blancs, heir to a prestige cuvée first released as early as 1949, was relaunched in 2018 as a love letter to the Chardonnay of Champagne.

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