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Caroline Henry is a Certified Sommelier living and specializing in Champagne. Her blog missinwine focuses mainly on organic, biodynamic and terroir wines of the champagne region. In September 2015 she will release the first book written solely on terroir champagne (more details on terroirchampagne.com).

2013: A Vintage Year in Champagne?

Caroline Henry
Features
4 min read
As the year draws to a close, and the base wines have finished their alcoholic fermentation the people of Champagne are excited about the 2013 vintage.  Many had been worried by the late harvest dates; it has been 25 years since the harvest dates lingered into October. The development of

Terroir in Champagne: Will Terroirists Kill the Blends?

Caroline Henry
Features
5 min read
The Champenois have long struggled with the notion of terroir. Unlike nearby Burgundy where just about every vineyard has had its terroir defined, in Champagne one will often speak about the generic Champagne terroir: that which makes Champagne’s wines unique. Common elements of this generic terroir are the region’s poor,

Small But Beautiful: 2012 Harvest in Burgundy

Caroline Henry
Features
9 min read
General Overview As everywhere in France, 2012 was not the easiest growing season in Burgundy with the weather causing general havoc. Burgundy suffered a few spring frosts just before flower set resulting in irregular flowering, hailstorms in late spring and early summer and atrocious wet weather for the most of