Champagne Boizel at the 15th Habits de Lumière Thursday 4 December 2014
Champagne! Habits de Lumière is celebrating its 15th anniversary! On Friday 12th, Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th December 2014, the Capital of Champagne lights up for a long festive weekend, full of sparkles.
For three days on, Epernay celebrates its culinary art and cultural heritage. At the programme: festivities in the Avenue de Champagne (artistic perform...
Each member of the Boizel family is proud to be part of this wonderful story and to take their turn as the holder of the family traditions that have been passed from father to son (or daughter) since 1834. But beyond recipes, blending secrets and customs, every generation has strived to enrich the family tradition and to pass on the Boizel spirit. Rigour, meticulousness and perseverance are of course essential, but passion for Champagne also ...
This is one of the paradoxes of Champagne: vines planted on hillsides in poor, chalky soil and subsoil, exposed to a northern climate with alternating oceanic and continental influences, produce here high quality grapes remarkable for their outstanding finesse. Their delicate aromatic potential and superb freshness are perfectly suited to the elaboration of great Champagnes. Three key elements -climate, sub-soil and hilly terrain- combine in a...
Giving each elaboration stage the necessary time for natural evolution, giving each wine the appropriate number of years in the cellar essential to reach its full potential, and meticulously choosing the dates for the release of wines onto the market, are a rare luxury; it is one of the family traditions to which the Boizels are the most deeply committed and one that they apply with expertise.
This notion of time is a decisive factor ...
Hidden at the far end of the cellars, the vault named “Treasury” has transcended time. Each generation has sought to set aside the best bottles and especially managed to protect this treasure to the vagaries of history. Each has preserved these fragile witnesses of the excellence of their work , precious liquid archives resting in the deepest caves. And this from the beginning with the first bottles of the young House in 1834.
A very r...
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