An inevitable guide, an unique concept

Between pleasure and emotion

After record sales in 2021 and while the Champagne area is resolutely moving towards controlling its ecological footprint, first AOP area to allow a varietal resistant to mildew and powdery mildew, the Voltis, in order to limit the use of pesticides, I am happy to present the Guide VERON des Champagnes 2023. For this thirteenth edition, 74 cuvées of champagne have been selected, produced by wine growers as well as cooperative cellars and Champagne houses. This year of discoveries and tastings has again been the occasion for new surprises, sources of constantly renewed pleasure, which have allowed me to measure the dynamism and creativity of the champagne producers.

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 2023. 

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

www.guide-veron-champagne.blogspot.com

Photos credits: Brigitte VERON