PIPER-HEIDSIECK CHAMPAGNE

Piper-Heidsieck Champagne: The Range

Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Brut

The expression of Regis Camus' parti-pris is best expressed in the Cuvée Brut champagne, with its notes of crunchy fruit. The Cuvée Brut champagne defines the essence of the House style of Piper-Heidsieck.

Piper-Heidsieck Rosé Sauvage

With its intense pink colour and joyful aromas, this is rosé champagne as seen through the extravagant lens of Piper-Heidsieck.

Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Sublime

Delightfully rich and crisp champagne, Cuvée Sublime is a pure experience of indulgence and refinement.

Piper-Heidsieck Vintage

Régis Camus declares a vintage only in exceptional years. Every element has to correspond to his clear idea of the Piper-Heidsieck Champagne House style. Exclusively Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are used in the elaboration of these wines.

Piper-Heidsieck Rare Vintage

The finesse of its aromas caracterise it as a sophisticated champagne of an exotic elegance. Régis Camus blends the radiant, crisp and very elegant Rare Vintage Champagne exclusively from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Always unexpected, Régis Camus here chooses to make a blend that is dominated by the mineral expressions of Chardonnay from the Montagne de Reims.

Baby Piper

Baby Piper, Piper-Heidsieck Champagne as a fashion accessory. Fresh, effervescent champagne in a red-laquered quarter bottle, to be drunk at the tip of the lips with a straw.

Piper-Heidsieck Champagne : Winemaking Excellence

Régis Camus, Winemaker of the year

The man in the shadows, the man of magic, is Régis Camus, Piper-Heidsieck Champagne's illustrious winemaker. This passionate enthusiast feels he does not play the role of wizard but acts as the conductor of a large orchestra. Blending a wine is not the result of chance or improvisation. Régis Camus must find the perfect balance between aromas and flavours to recreate the Piper-Heidsieck style.

A level of excellence

The House of Piper-Heidsieck champagne works with close to two hundred growers, spread out over the whole of the Champagne area. Régis Camus, winemaker, and his team, refer to a certain number of "House criteria", established over time and enriched by their own experiences.

Blending : talent and intuition

One must have great know-how and a great deal of intuition to be able to imagine what the wine will be after maturation : that is the key to the future wines Régis Camus and his winemaking team are able to accomplish by composing with the infinite variations that varietals and crus. Year after year, they need to manage to give birth to the "je ne sais quoi" that gives Piper-Heidsieck champagne all its personality.

The Maturation : mastering time

The maturation in the cellars gives Champagne Piper-Heidsieck the finesse of its bubbles, its subtlety, an elegance full of vivacity. Lightness, carefree spirit, crunch, ... is what the Piper-Heidsieck spirit is all about. "what is most difficult is to make it simple", says Régis Camus.

The Piper-Heidsieck champagne Style

The Piper-Heidsieck wines are radiant and crisp. Their distinct personality is a choice of style made by Régis Camus. Over the last 220 years, the spirit of the House has evolved without really changing. The "Piper" champagne style plays with freshness, vivacity and fruit. The Piper-Heidsieck wines have charm and drive, but also structure and precision.

Piper-Heidsieck Champagne: History

1785: Florens-Louis Heidsieck founds his Champagne House. His wines gain immediate recognition and in May of the same year, he is said to have presented his already legendary champagne to Queen Marie-Antoinette at Versailles. 1828: Christian Heidsieck assumed control of the House while Henri Guillaume Piper, travelled the world to promote and sell his champagne. The House of Heidsieck became the official purveyor to 14 Royal and Imperial Courts, including those as far away as Siam and China ! 1885: To celebrate the Houses' 100th Anniversary, Piper-Heidsieck asked Carl Fabergé, the jeweller to the Russian tsar, to create bottle of diamonds, gold and lapis-lazuli. 1896: Piper-Heidsieck asked Aubrey Beardsley, the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, to design the famous poster of Isolde drinking its legendary champagne. 1953: Marylin Monroe famously declared that she went to bed every night with Chanel n°5 behind her ears and woke up every morning with a glass of Piper-Heidsieck Champagne. 1965: Piper-Heidsieck created the largest bottle of champagne in the world – the size of English actor Rex Harrison, a towering 1,82 meters – to celebrate Harrison's Oscar win for his role in "My Fair Lady" alongside Audrey Hepburn. This 'Melchisedech' – the equivalent of 64 bottles – contained: Piper-Heidsieck Brut Vintage 1959 Champagne. 1985: Piper-Heidsieck asked Van Cleef & Arpels to redesign the famous Cuvée Rare bottle created by Fabergé one hundred years earlier. 1997: Piper-Heidsieck adorns the red label, symbol of enthusiasm, passion, panache and excellence, to convey a message of conviviality 1999: Piper-Heidsieck is the first champagne House to ask a fashion designer to dress a special cuvée, in this case the Cuvée Spéciale dressed by Jean Paul Gaultier. 2000: Piper-Heidsieck becomes the first House to offer quarter-bottles of champagne, drunk with the use of a straw, in phase with changing lifestyles. 2002: Piper-Heidsieck reinvents the art of Rosé Champagne with the launch of Cuvée Rosé Sauvage. 2004: Piper-Heidsieck continues in the extension of its range and launches Cuvée Sublime Champagne 2006: Piper-Heidsieck launches Piper-Heidsieck Piscine reinventing the way to savour Champagne