Champagne Wishes: Nicolas Feuillatte Brut Champagne Highly Recommended by Whom You Know!!! Did You Know That Nicolas Feuillatte & Peachy Deegan share the Same Birthday!
In the midst of the holiday season, there are many reasons to celebrate. It is so important to have the best holiday drinks at the holiday parties you are hosting! I cannot think of a better drink to have at a classy holiday party than Champagne. It shows sophistication! It shows you are ready to party! Nicolas Feuillatte Brut Champagne will show your guests that you have class and great taste. Unlike many other sparkling wines, this one is from the Champagne region of France, so it can truly be called Champagne. This will be sure to impress! Not to mention, this Champagne tastes absolutely wonderful! It has just the right amount of fizzy bubbles. Also, it's sweet flavor actually reminds me of fruitcake! This Champagne would go perfectly with fish or chicken, or even a delicious dessert. Actually, you could enjoy it all on its own with friends and loved ones at your next get-together! Take your next holiday party to the next level with Nicolas Feuillatte!
Holiday season is here! Never is there a more important time to find a new Champagne to enjoy. This year is no different and I am loving, loving, loving Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Brut. It is non-vintage, and a great show for their brand. I found it to be light and smooth. The aroma is of light fruit when you first taste it. There is no one ingredient that is too strong to prevent you to serve with just about anything. Oh and the bubbles? Plentiful and quite delicate. No doubt this is going to be what I serve at my own Christmas party this year. I am looking forward to cooking and trying out my own pairings! Am dreaming of a light smoked salmon with dill cream -- could be a perfect pairing!
As a young house, Nicolas Feuillatte champagnes have garnered attention and fans the world over. M. Feuillatte created the brand in 1976, and launched his first Brut in 1978. He had acquired 12 hectares (hectare=approx. .4 acres) in 1976 in the Andre Valley, in champagne, and thus a legend was born. Did you know that to begin a champagne, over 400 samples of clear wines are analysed and criticised? To make a perfect champagne, the perfect grapes are blended by the perfect wine-maker , and this is what gives us the quality of each champagne that Nicolas Feuillatte produces.
The Brut is a gourmet champagne, elegant, delicate. There is a 40% pinot noir, 20% chardonnay, and 40% pinot meunier blended to give the pale gold color, with great bubbles. The sense of fruitiness is perfect as an aperitif, but will last all through a meal of lobster, fish, or chicken. This brut champagne is a must in any wine cellar.
Brilliant as a champagne, and as a watchdog of the ecological balance. Now owned by the Centre Vinicole de la Champagne, the House of Feuillatte goes to great lengths of study, not just for their wines, but for packaging as well. In the past 3 years, they have reduced their polypropylene packaging by 72%, and that is very important to us here on Planet Earth. Put a great wine inside hi-style packaging that also benefits the Earth? Now, that's good sense.
Tis the season to be jolly! Nothing makes me jollier or puts me in the holiday season like some bubbly. As champagnes go , you probably have your typical bottles you turn too. There is one that may not be as familiar to you as some of the others. But after one taste you will have a new champagne to call your own. Nicolas Feuillatte is one of the top French champagnes on the market. I love their signature Brut with its crisp taste and its stellar bubbles. Not sweet and there is no way you can overdo it on this one. Not only do my taste buds tingle and jingle from this champagne but I savor each sip. I know you will feel the same when you indulge in a glass of Nicholas Feuillatte Brut.
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For 35 years,
Nicolas Feuillatte has been creating more than a Champagne
Choosing Nicolas Feuillatte is also choosing a lifestyle and living it on a daily basis,
transforming audacity into something tangible, making the unconventional a rule of
thumb, and declaring celebration a simple pleasure or even a state of mind.
More than just a Champagne, 35 years of inspiration !
Behind the brand is just one man: Nicolas Feuillatte, a devoted lover of Champagne. He was
looking for a Champagne that was different and in some way a reflection of his own personality,
that exuded his own hedonistic love of life.
Created in 1976, Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte has always stood out from the crowd. It is a
brand that is free to dare, re-invent and innovate, and that knows instinctively how to break free
from traditional Champagne convention, giving free rein to its creativity...
Nicolas Feuillatte,
The man who made Champagne
Into a lifestyle
Born 29th January, 1926 in Paris, Nicolas Feuillatte’s future seemed
all mapped out.
Yet very soon, his adventurous spirit gets the better of him and he
leaves his family of well-established negociants, to try his fate in the
USA.
Quite apart from the incredibly daring risk he takes, which turns out
to be a stroke of luck, it is his ingenious communication skills to
which he owes his fortune. Driven by an all-consuming passion for
life and an insatiable taste for partying, he soon gained a reputation
on the New York circuit for his excellence in throwing fabulous parties
in his apartment.
At just 40 years old, this inventive and passionate man has not only
created a fortune, but also a name: he has built up an image of
elegance, audacity and inspiration, and he is now ready for his next
adventure! It was his brother who suggested he should fi nance the
purchase of a vineyard.
“A devotee of Champagne and just back from a whirlwind existence travelling around the world,
nothing could have seemed more idyllic at the time than devoting myself to this new “very French”
adventure.” So together in 1976, they create their own Champagne. They want to create an elegant
cuvée, marketed under an original label, bearing the Nicolas Feuillatte signature. Two years on,
the “Réserve Particulière” is born. Inspired by his anti-conformist outlook and “man of the world”
persona, this Champagne is targeted at his American circle of friends and amongst them, Jackie
Onassis, Shirley Mac Laine, Sophia Loren and Lauren Bacall. The quality of the wines makes them
an immediate success, and Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte is launched.
In 1985, he approaches the local cooperative, the “Centre Vinicole de la Champagne” as a potential
Champagne supply source. From this point forward, the cooperative is responsible for handling the
production of between 4-500,000 bottles, of which more than 40% are destined for export. Just a
year later, keen to build longevity for his company, Nicolas Feuillatte makes the decision to relinquish
the rights to the brandname to the Centre Vinicole de Champagne, who offi cially become its owner
on March 6th 1986. From now on, Nicolas Feuillatte is responsible for external relations, assuring the
successful distribution of the brand in France and abroad, and becomes international ambassador
for the brand.
In just 25 years, the number of bottles of Nicolas Feuillatte Champagne sold has multiplied 20-fold,
reaching a staggering 8 million bottles in 2010.
More than just a Champagne, 35 years of commitment
Commitment to the future: from the very outset, Nicolas Feuillatte has drawn inspiration from the
traditional savoir-faire of the Champagne growers, which the brand works tirelessly to safeguard and
promote in order to ensure its continued and future existence.
The Centre Vinicole – Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte is the n° 1 co-operative union in Champagne,
boasting more than 5,000 growers. These growers work rigorously to cultivate the vines and optimise
their potential. As a result, Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte has at its disposal a supply source that
refl ects the diversity of the Champagne appellation, with extremely high quality standards.
More than just a Champagne, 35 years of passion
One of Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte’s secrets of success is undoubtedly the men behind the brand,
who have remained true to its values, to a passion and a lifestyle. Their overriding intention is to share
and communicate this state of mind.
Each year, resident Cellar Master Jean Pierre Vincent, using at his disposal an unparalleled supply of
Champagne, creates the blend which best expresses the house style; a style that is unique, cheeky
and spontaneous.
Jean-Pierre Vincent is the man responsible, for transforming a style into a Champagne,
35 years ago.
His background is inextricably linked to that of the Centre Vinicole – Champagne Nicolas
Feuillatte. When he joined the Centre in 1976, there was a need to create a range of
Champagnes and he surpasses the act of mere creation. Instead, he breathes life into a
range of original Champagnes that are adored by today’s lifestyle lovers. Coming from a
school of oenologists who believe it is not enough to limit oneself to crafting the wine, and
who long to control the entire grape process from A to Z, Jean-Pierre Vincent makes his mark…
A tireless grape-picker, he never ceases to imagine, innovate and
shock in order to create the wine that he loves. The Champagne
he crafts is well-balanced with delicate bubbles, and is round and
refreshing on the palate. The wine’s aromatic expression is a true
reflection of its personality and terroir; a complex, yet incredibly light
wine.
To get this far, two distinct advantages have played a vital role in his
success: firstly, his fl awless mastery of his craft and secondly, the
complete palette of crus from across the entire Champagne region
from which he can select his wines.
And in 2011, the Cellar Master at the Centre Vinicole – Champagne
Nicolas Feuillatte has sourced an incredible reserve of wines that
very few other brands could rival; namely 13 of the 17 Grands Crus,
33 of the 42 Premiers Crus and more than 200 Crus from the 321
within the Champagne appellation.
More than just a Champagne, 35 years of creation
Each year, a number of artists play an important role in building the unique and slightly quirky
personality of the brand. Created far from traditional Champagne convention, the Nicolas
Feuillatte brand nurtures this point of difference by inviting artists and designers to enrich the
brand identity.
Each year, since 1999, Nicolas Feuillatte appoints an “artist of the year”, who feeds in to the
creative concept of the brand by creating an exclusive and original work of art.
This year Nicolas Feuillatte has combined forces with the contemporary photographer and
creative illusionist Julien Taylor, who coincidentally is also celebrating his 35th birthday this year.
Scientifically trained and an expert in photomontage, Julien Taylor captures the impossible in his
photography: time and movement. Appealing to the purely fun side of his audience, he transports
us into a magical theatre where space is constructed and deconstructed in a kaleidoscopic
vision.
Nicolas Feuillatte has always attached great importance to the visual presentation of its wines
and their associated brand imagery and works with renowned designers and stylists, such
as Christian Ghion, Hervé Van Der Straeten, Corinne Cobson and Stella Cadente, to design a
collection of original gift packaging and promotional gift ideas.
The fusion of an inspirational lifestyle and traditional savoir-faire, for 35 years now, Nicolas Feuillatte has been the ultimate brand epitomising creativity and conviviality.
The metal gift canister
A collectable luxury gift canister
To make those “Champagne moments” truly
unforgettable, a metal gift canister proudly bearing the
Nicolas Feuillatte 35th anniversary colors, will delight
Champagne collectors and connoisseurs alike.
Original and strikingly bold, the luxury tin is decorated
with an elegant, on-trend multistripe design. Once
again, the brand asserts its difference; a difference
that has always been celebrated, as it pushes the
boundaries to seek inspiration beyond traditional
codes and convention.
The Limited Edition canister also serves as a reminder
that Nicolas Feuillatte’s creativity is expressed just as
well through its packaging as through its Champagne
- because Champagne and “Champagne moments”
go hand in hand, moments of sheer sophistication and
art de vivre.
Available from September 2011.
Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Brut non-vintage : 36 $.
