Champagne Academy News & Blog

Philip Dunne, Global Group Sommelier for The Doyle Collection for Ireland, UK & the USA. This years final day of the course, was greeted...

Details on this years Candidates who passed the course successfully, and this years Course Winner.

by Clare Tooley, MW I have a framed photograph in my office taken at the presentation ceremony on the steps of ‘Les Crayeres’. Standing...

“I drink Champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I...

It was, absolutely, one of the best weeks of my life and one that I will never forget. A lifetime ago in 2007, pre Covid, pre kids,...

On the final day of the best week of my life, I sat in a 2 Michelin star restaurant, enjoying the food, the wine and the afterglow of...