People often ask me: "What is your favourite champagne?". I always answer: "I don't have a favourite champagne, I have favourite champagne moments!". That said, when I know the woman who made the champagne, or the history of the House, it makes the champagne taste even better. So does sharing the bottle with someone I like. If I am sharing it with someone nasty, no matter how technically good the champagne is, it always leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

Here is a list of champagne houses/producers that have a soft spot in my heart because women play an important role there. The list will make more sense if you attend one of my events!

 

1 - Champagnes used regularly by Delectabulles

• Champagne Veuve Olivier et Fils
• Champagne Albert Beerens
• Champagne AR Lenoble
• Champagne Sabine Godmé
• Champagne BLIV
• Champagne Piot-Sévillano
• Champagne Le Gallais

Note: the champagnes above are difficult to find outside of France, except for AR Lenoble

 

2 - Members of La Transmission, Femmes en Champagne

• Champagne AR Lenoble: Anne Malassagne
• Champagne Boizel: Evelyne Boizel
• Champagne Claude Cazals: Delphine Cazals
• Champagne Drappier: Charline Drappier
• Champagne Philippe Gonet: Chantal Gonet
• Champagne Krug: Maggie Henriquez
• Champagne Bruno Paillard: Alice Paillard
• Champagne Tarlant: Mélanie Tarlant
• Champagne Taittinger: Vitalie Taittinger

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3 - Members of Les Fa’Bulleuses

• Champagne Beaugrand
• Champagne De Sousa
• Champagne Mary Sessile
• Champagne Baillette-Prudhomme
• Champagne Guy Méa
• Champagne Bonnevie Bocart

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Note: the champagnes above are difficult to find outside of France, except for De Sousa

 

4 - Houses with female cellar masters

• Ayala: Caroline Latrive
• Chanoine Tsarine: Isabelle Tellier
• Charles Lafitte: Celine Gasco
• de Castelnau: Carine Bailleul
• de Venoge: Isabelle Tellier
• Duval Leroy: Sandrine Logette-Jardin
• Eugene Ralle: Nathalie Arnould
• Gardet: Stephanie Sucheyre
• Hernri Abelé: Véronique Blin and Marie Gicquel
• Henriot: Alice Tétienne
• J. de Telmont: Charlotte Eschbach
• Joseph Perrier: Nathalie Laplaige
• Krug: Julie Cavil
• Perrier-Jouët: Séverine Frerson
• Ployez-Jacquemart: Laurence Ployez

 

5 - History of Champagne

• Veuve Clicquot
• Pommery
• Laurent-Perrier
• Henriot
• Krug
• Roederer
• Bollinger
• Pol Roger