Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018 (English version)

by Michel VERON, Brigitte VERON (Photographer), Dominique DEMARVILLE (Preface by)

Overview

An inevitable Guide, An unique concept

Between pleasure and emotion

With this eighth edition, the VERON Champagne Guide reaches its maturity and imposes its originality.

Faithful to its original concept, which consists in refusing to classify and mark the selected champagnes in order not to reduce them to vulgar consumer goods of which performance could be measured, it continues to develop in accordance with its editorial line.

The 91 Champagnes selected in this VERON Champagnes Guide 2018 thanks to the numerous tastings, in total independence, offer you the opportunity to travel directly in the heart of the Champagne area, to discover the infinite wealth of it, which enabled it to enter into the UNESCO World Heritage on 4 July 2015.

A source of fascinating encounters with professionals from Champagne (producers, wine growers and cellar masters), this book is a testimony to the extraordinary creativity of the Champenois, whose ancestral expertise, constantly reinvented, constitutes a true cultural heritage.

Made in Champagne by Michel VERON, œnologist and œnology teacher at Lycée Viticole de la Champagne since 1991, this book published in French and English was born out of his passion for Champagne tasting, his long experience enriched with innumerable exchanges with the Champenois wine makers and his thirst for discovery...

“Art and wine serve to bring people together.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782765930068
Publisher:	Editions Guide VERON
Publication date:	07/13/2017
Series:	Guide VERON des Champagnes , #8
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	327
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Biography of Michel VERON

Winemaker

An oenologist by training, graduated from the University of Dijon, Burgundy in 1986, I worked for 4 years for a Burgundy trade (1987 to 1991). In this first job, as production manager, I vinified, bred and bottled wines from almost all regions of France, from Burgundy to Bordeaux, through the Loire Valley, Alsace And the Rhone Valley. This first experience was a revelation for me, especially at the tasting level that I practiced a lot, as purchasing manager.

For family reasons, I had to look for a post in the northern part of France. But very quickly, Champagne has established itself as an obvious, if only by the quality of the sparkling wines it offers, undisputed reference for any wine lover.

Professor of oenology in Champagne

I then passed the Oenology Professor Competition at the Ministry of Agriculture and joined the Champagne and the Avize Viti Campus in 1991. Again, this was a real discovery: Of a region, of a particular professional path, with its personalities, but especially its collective linked to its organization. I especially met a wine ... Inimitable and intoxicating.

An original and ambitious Champagne Guide

The idea of ​​the Guide VERON of Champagne comes from the students of BTS Technico-Commercial in wine and spirits of the lycée viticole of Champagne. These are the same students who decided to give my name. Of myself, I would never have considered such a project. I had, moreover, a very negative idea of ​​the blind tastings and of the arbitrary judgments, unfortunately often erroneous, which emerge from them. At first, I agreed to accompany the students on this project in 2009, provided that the champagnes tasted are never noted or compared, and that avoids the pitfall of tasting blind . Then, I realized that this Guide to Champagnes was a formidable educational tool. It was an unexpected opening on the professional world, which allowed me to stay in touch with my former students and with the professionals of Champagne, and to offer students a real initiatory journey through Champagne, between unforgettable tastings and enriching encounters. I learned a lot from this project myself.