Wine for sale: Rare Champagne

Rare Champagne

Rare Champagne emerged from the heart of the Champagne vineyards, in Reims, in 1976. For years, this cuvée was considered the most emblematic of the Piper-Heidsieck Champagne House, founded by Florens-Louis Heidsieck in 1785. It was during this very year that he presented his famous Prestige cuvée to Marie-Antoinette. In 1885, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this landmark event, the House unveiled a limited series of bottles branded the Cuvée du Centenaire. For this special occasion, Pierre-Karl Fabergé, the jeweller who designed the majestic and inimitable Fabergé eggs for Tsar Alexander III, was commissioned to adorn the bottle with gold, diamonds and lapis lazuli. Unfortunately, this project never came to fruition owing to the fragile nature of the glass bottles and the tools of the time, but it underlines the extreme distinction of this Champagne reference. Since 2018, Rare Champagne has become a Champagne House in its own right, crafting exceptional, very limited-edition cuvées with an inimitable style that has contributed to establishing France’s international reputation in the wine world.