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On behalf of a client:
Buy Your Exclusive Champagne Gifts from Champagne Discovery
My client, Champagne Discovery offers exclusive, little known champagnes, specially selected by leading champagne expert, Jiles Halling.
Jiles and his business, Champagne Discovery have two main aims:
If you are looking for fine champagne as a corporate or personal gift, to celebrate your own success or even to just give yourself a little pampering then Jiles' selection of superb champagne is just what you are looking for.
We are not talking about mass produced Champagnes from the massive Champagne Houses that you will find in every supermarket.
Instead Jiles brings you Champagnes made by small, often family run businesses and each has its own story to tell. But rest assured. Each has been selected for the superb quality and first class value.
Pierson Whitaker Réserve
Premier Cru
50% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir
Region : Côte des Blancs
Village : Avize
Didier Pierson is a young, up-and-coming champagne-maker increasingly admired by wine enthusiasts in France and elsewhere. Didier and his English partner, Imogen Whitaker, run a small, family company where production is still largely carried out by hand. This allows a level of personal attention and total commitment to quality that is reflected in every bottle.
Pierson Whitaker Réserve is a blend of Grand Cru Chardonnay grapes from the village of Avize, one of the most famous in Champagne, with Premier Cru Pinot Noir grapes from the nearby village of Grauves.
After blending, the champagne is aged as much as five years: much longer than either the legal requirement for non-vintage champagne or the length of ageing used by most larger champagne houses. This extra ageing is important because both Pinot Noir and Chardonnay need considerable time to reach their full potential.
The result is a light, bright champagne, full of citrus-fruit flavours and aromas, that really sparkles in the mouth and leaves a lovely, clean sensation. It’s fantastic as an aperitif, or at pretty much any time of day.
Champagne Franck Bonville Sélection
Grand Cru
100% Chardonnay ( Blanc des Blancs )
Region : Côte des Blancs
Village : Avize
As any good chef will tell you, great ingredients are essential to produce great food. The same is true in Champagne where the very best vineyards – only 5 % of the total - are called Grand Cru.
The Bonville family owns 19 hectares of vines in the villages of Avize, Cramant and Oger, all of which are ranked as Grand Cru. These villages are located in the Côte des Blancs area where, on the south-east facing slopes, sitting on top of an immensely thick layer of chalk, it is generally acknowledged that the very best Chardonnay grapes are grown.
Unlike most champagnes which are a blend of two or three grape varieities, Franck Bonville Sélection is made only with white Chardonnay grapes which produce a light, refreshing style that brings the taste buds alive. This is a dry ( Brut ) champagne, but without any suggestion of aggressive sharpness. On the contrary the quality of the grapes and the skill of the blending produce a beautifully smooth, creamy texture that makes you want to drink more.
Franck Bonville Sélection has a fresh citrusy zing that makes it the perfect aperitif champagne, but it is also a great match with shell fish, smoked salmon, sushi and delicately cooked white fish dishes.
This is just one of a range of exceptional champagnes made with passion and in limited quantities by the smaller growers in the Champagne region and imported by Champagne Discovery.
Etienne Lefèvre Réserve
Grand Cru
75% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay
Region: Montagne de Reims
Village: Verzy
The Montagne de Reims area, just south of Reims, is renowned for the quality of its Pinot Noir grapes and both the village of Verzy and the neighbouring village of Verzenay, where the Lefèvre family own vineyards, are classified as Grand Cru, meaning that they are in the top 5% of all vineyards in Champagne.
The grapes grown by the Lefèvre family are always in great demand from other, much larger and better known champagne houses. However, the Lefèvres keep the best grapes for themselves to produce champagnes that are full of the body and flavour typical of Pinot Noir grapes.
Etienne Lefèvre Réserve has a pale gold colour and aromas of ripe apples and pears, mixed with notes of cinnamon and hazelnut. It has a full, round texture on the palate and makes a wonderful accompaniment to white meat and poultry, but is equally enjoyable as an indulgent aperitif.
Collard-Chardelle Brut Rosé
50% Pinot Meunier, 50% Pinot Noir
Region : Vallée de la Marne
Village : Villers sous Châtillon
The Collard-Chardelle family owns a total of 17 hectares of vineyards mostly situated along the slopes of the Marne river where they have made a speciality of planting the Pinot Meunier grape - a variety common in Champagne, but rare elsewhere.
In the rich soil of the river valley Pinot Meunier produces champagnes that are fresh, smooth and full of fruit.
Unusually, Collard-Chardelle rosé is a Pinot Meunier / Pinot Noir blend with no white Chardonnay grapes at all. The result is a rosé with a fabulous, deep-pink colour and plenty of red fruit flavours, whilst the huge oak barrels used for ageing give a deliciously soft finish in the mouth.
This superb rosé is a great drink on any occasion and is more than a match for most better-known brands.
Brochure
Please download the Champagne Discovery Reserve Collection brochure on pdf if you need to have the purchase of these superb champagnes approved. All you have to do it double-click on the image below.
Presentation Boxes
You can choose between different types of presentation boxes for your champagne gifts.
Luxury Silk Lined Boxes are shown below:
Or if you prefer a simpler style:
Delivery
These special Champagne gifts can be delivered anywhere within the UK but Champagne Discovery do not delivery overseas.
Please order early because any large orders will need to be imported into the UK and because we are dealing with very small businesses this does take some time. There is also the risk that your preferred champagne could sell out as the quantities produced are so small.
Special Trial Offer
Send Jiles the names and addresses of 3 of your best clients and we’ll send each of them a bottle of exclusive champagne for a total price of just £100.
Subsequent orders of more than £1,000 in value received and paid for by October 30th will receive an automatic 10 % discount.
To Order
By phone
To place an order or to discuss your particular requirements call Champagne Discovery on 0845 123 1284
By e-mail
Download the order form and e-mail it back to Champagne Discovery at sparkle@champagne-discovery.co.uk
An explanation
You may be wondering why Champagne Discovery does not have its own website and why it is being promoted here on my website.
It is my fault which is why I am trying to help out and promote champagne gifts for Jiles.
Jiles has been having serious issues with the company hosting his website and I recommended that if we were going to make changes then we should make big changes and have a full ecommerce site.
Then we hit a problem although it's a nice problem to have.
Jiles has been so busy organising and presenting events that the website development project has been pushed to one side and delayed beyond the peak champagne gift season.
It is the price of popularity as Jiles has been discussing over one hundred champagne tastings and other associated champagne events with many of the most prestigious names in the country.
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