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Champagne Piper-Heidsieck

Montagne de ReimsReimsNMNMNégociant ManipulantA house that makes and sells champagne from grapes it buys in, wholly or partly. Most of the famous names sit here, and the category says nothing about quality or whether the house also owns vineyards.Founded 1785

Piper-Heidsieck dates to 1785, when Florens-Louis Heidsieck, a Westphalian pastor's son working as a cloth merchant in Reims, founded a house with the stated ambition of making a cuvée worthy of a queen.

The house has kept its own pace through every vintage, and the cellar still works the way it always has: one press, one tank, one decision at a time.

Everything here is allowed to settle slowly. The wines rest longer than the market asks for, and the family tastes the whole range before anything leaves the cellar.

What follows is written from visits, from bottles opened too early and a few opened at exactly the right moment.

The house has kept its own pace through every vintage, and the cellar still works the way it always has: one press, one tank, one decision at a time.

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A cuvée made for Marie Antoinette, and a house that has spent two centuries insisting Champagne is allowed to be fun.

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