2024 has arrived with its icy conditions, that has dressed up our surroundings in pretty whites. The frost is good for the soil as well as the mood. At least when the sun shines. Happy new year to you and your dear ones. Why not leave some space for fun as well, now we are at it? Some fun, some good times from the very icy start.
Læs mereThe Champagne grape harvest 2023: Relief at Champagne Tange-Gérard as total joy finally trumped all summer’s worries. The final maturation sprint of the Chardonnays secured very beautifully mature grapes picked partly in the rain that was most welcome after 4,5 days of tropical temperatures.
Læs mereThe tradition in Champagne is to exchange New Year’s wishes and it’s valid to do it all January. This is our occasion to wish you well: May 2023 bring better news than 2022. Yet, we hope that sunshine did occasionally light up your path too and that you are ready for more champagne.
Læs mereThe Champagne region is colourful. But always more in autumn. At the moment the vineyards show off the ultimate version of autumn leaves in all colours imaginable between earthen browns and all the way to the most explosive reds. Why don’t you have a look at les Belles Feuilles?
Læs mereWe took les vendanges to the end with a good toast at Champagne Tange-Gérard in Soulières on September 9th. If some still had arms that hurt, the explanation could be linked with the 46 tons of grapes that were picked by the incredibly motivated team in just 8 days. Some of these grapes will make our first single plot Pinot Meunier champagne.
Læs mereNew year, new vintage. Maybe 2022 will follow in the wake of 2002 and 2012 and develop into a new great vintage of a year of “2”? Maybe you are excited too. From . From 2021 you may remember how the year was our worst nightmare in the vineyards? But once the grapes have been pressed, only the new vins clairs count and they are good.
Læs mereWe all notice changes related to warmer weather. But did you know that the sparkling champagne was born out of a climate change several hundred years ago? Here is the story of 1.000 years of climate change in Champagne.
Læs mereChampagnes vines thrive to perfection in a cool climate. How will our grapes and champagnes preserve their taste when the region is warmer in a changed climate?
Læs mereNew methods in the parcels push vines into hard competition with other plants for nutrients. This is how we work with the soils to fill the plate of everyone in the line.
Læs mereWe make efforts to avoid throwing away stuff. Read more about how branches in the vineyards, lees from the vinification or even tops from the open champagne bottle can become spin-offs instead of waste.
Læs mereThe grapeharvest is finished at Champagne Tange-Gerard: A bit less than 27.000 kilos of grapes, cultivated according to organic principles, are currently being turned into wine. Despite lower yields than we aimed at, the grapes were of better quality than we dared hope for in our most difficult year ever.
Læs mereRarely have we been this impatient to begin the new year. In our family the main criteria for success in 2020 was for everyone to remain well, the company included. From 2020, we share this experience of the limits of mankind but also of what we can achieve together.
Læs mereCountrystyle or the beat of the city? Joint or country house? Waterfront or vineyard? Five very different locations somewhere in Europe welcome you with a glass or a bottle of Tange-Gérard champagne.
Læs mereLet’s rejoice: Warm weather in 2020 provided a great selection of wines to work into lovely champagnes. They will be ready for you in some years, when our experiences from 2020 will be condensed into memories of a difficult spring and a rare lack of momentum, that we all share.
Læs mereGrapeharvest coming up at Champagne Tange-Gerard. This is where you can read more about the grapes of this year. They are doing great after a season withour major obstacles. Once again we notice how our conditions have changed, the weather patterns different. Especially since 2015 where summers have been warm and dry rather than wet and cold as before. 2020 is no exception.
Læs mereWe had never met before, when Svend Bondes oysters were casted in the supporting role, as we presented our latest plot-champagne. But the parallel between Svend, who collects the wild oysters from the waters of the Limfjord, and us, who look after our vines in Champagne, was so obvious.
Læs mereWe just had the great pleasure to share our new Chardonnay champagne, Sollissime from 2015, with a great crowd in Copenhagen. 2015 is a very interesting year as it is the first vintage of ours that is part of a new trend of warm years in Champagne. Here are some of our reflections on climate changes in Champagne.
Læs mereNow we’ve had a few days to get used to landing in the new twenties. There’s lots to be done in this third decade of the 21st century. Big challinges and necessary choices for us who make champagne and for you who enjoy it.
Læs mereThe end-of-the-year parties approach. In fact, we are some who have been in the partyfeeling all of December because we all like it. With or without X-mas, you may find the time, will and cheer to enjoy some good moments with your dear ones.
Læs merePlease meet our new little helper in the vineyards. Plants will facilitate our outside duties and at the same time fortify the vines for the benefit of the grapes and finally the champagnes as well.
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