An inevitable guide, an unique concept
Between pleasure and emotion
For this twelfth edition, 110 cuvées of champagne have been selected by the Guide VERON des Champagnes, produced by wine growers as well as cooperative cellars and Champagne houses. Throughout the discoveries and tastings, I was able to measure the dynamism and creativity of Champagne, despite the difficult health and economic context. Champagne is reinventing itself and is resolutely moving towards reducing its ecological footprint and better respecting biodiversity, between High Environmental Value and Sustainable Viticulture of Champagne certifications, and conversions to organic and biodynamic viticulture.
The Guide VERON des Champagnes remains faithful to its concept, the one that makes it stand out, which consists in refusing to classify and mark the selected champagnes, in order not to fall into vulgarity. How to assign a grade to a pleasure or an emotion? Through this book, I offer you a real initiatory journey, to meet the wine growers and cellar masters who made it possible to write this Guide VERON des Champagnes 2022.
This book published in French and English was born out of my passion for champagne tasting, my long experience enriched by innumerable exchanges with the champenois wine growers and my thirst for discovery
Michel VERON
Œnologist and teacher at Lycée viticole de la Champagne since 1991