Or shall we call it ‘The Richards’ ?! Instead of ‘The Champagne Oscars’ ? We want to sum-up the year of 2025 from a Champagne perspective. In 20+ categories we hand out awards for this years most memorable Champagnes & Champagne related topics! [ read the full champagne story ]
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Historical Winners
| 2025 | James Bond Hiking 1983 Bollinger ‘Grande Année’ in Matera [ITA] |
| 2024 | Isle of Skye – Scotland |
| 2023 | – |
| 2022 | Meteora [GRE] |
| 2021 | 1976 Henriot ’Cuvée Baccarat’ @ Place de Vosges on sunny day in September. [FRA] |
| 2020 | Hotel Serbelloni in Bellagio on the wonderful Lake Como [ITA] |
About Champagne Hiking
There is an increased understanding that all of our senses contribute when we experience pleasure. Factors such as location, company, and mood will affect the overall experience. When attending play or concert, this has long been a matter of course, but within the world of gastronomy this is a fairly recent realisation. This revolutionary idea is championed by fantastic food creators such as Heston Blumenthal, at The Fat Duck. As the guests take the first bite of a wonderful seafood dish, they might be offered sounds of waves hitting the shore, seagulls shrieking, and a light mist smelling of the sea. If he could, he would move you to the beach where the oysters were collected. While physical transportation is impossible, the divine champagne in the cooler bag will momentarily move your being the to the optimal location, one bottle at the time. And I will tell you how.
’Champagne Hiking is an invitation to enjoy discovering new spaces, a journey that will take you to new places, further afield, higher, deeper, stronger, right to the beating heart of Champagne, within each one of you. The sensations created through the tasting are liberated and amplified, through a new relationship with nature.’
Richard Juhlin
