This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 2010 Dominique Demarville, cellar master for the champagne house Veuve Clicquot, got what he thought was a joke call ...

Discover the science behind champagne production, from the ancient cellars where fermentation and ageing processes occur to the vineyards shaped by terroir and climate. According to legend ...

Composed of various eaux-de-vies aged for decades in a hundred-year-old ... was designed as a love letter to the terroir of the Grand Champagne district. Expect aromas of delicate flowers, summer ...