VERON Champagnes Guide 2016

An inevitable guide, a unique conceptBetween pleasure and emotionEven if it is first the fruit of an ever more rigorous selection, in totalindependence, this Champagnes Guide is above all an essential book thataccompanies the amateur of Champagnes in his discovery of the infinitewealth of the Champagne area through the 107 selected cuvées .The VERON Champagnes Guide takes you into its unlimited quest ofthe fabulous diversity of the Champagne area and invites you to penetrate thesecrets of the creation of the cuvées , traditional Champagnes, extraordinarygems, inevitable classics or prestigious Champagnes. The aim is certainlynot to judge the selected Champagne, but rather to grasp, to understand thetechnical, viticultural and oenological approach, the philosophy, the intuitionthat guided its producer. The VERON Champagnes Guide thereforeabstains from marking and ranking. It is also an opportunity for a realinitiatory route through the Champagne area for the students of the LycéeViticole de la Champagne, future Champagne professionals, who take part inselection tastings.While the hillsides, Houses and wine cellars of Champagne are justentering into the UNESCO World Heritage, the objective is ambitious : toput the Champagne back in its proper place, the one of a real cultural andgastronomic French and global heritage.Realized by Michel VERON in Champagne, oenologist and oenologyteacher at Lycée Viticole de la Champagne since 1991, this book, availablein French and in English, is the fruit of his passion for the tasting ofChampagnes, of his long experience enriched by many exchanges with theChampagne makers and of his thirst for discovery : “Every explorer knowsit, the most exciting is what is left to discover” Doctor Sylvestre Maurice –Astrophysicist.