Arden Fine Wines is delighted to be working with our good friends and colleagues the Singhal family to offer their Champagne Challiol & Charmetant to UK customers.
The Singhals bought vineyards in the Marne Valley in 2018. They are the first Indian owners of a Champagne vineyard and created this brand.
The label states “Récoltant Coopérateur”: The grower gives their harvest to a co-operative, which in turn makes the Champagne. The grower takes back the bottles, adds value, and labels and dresses them before selling the brand themselves.
The dosage is 7 grams per litre (0.7% sugar content in the wine).
After five years of ageing on the lees, the first bottling of Champagne Challiol & Charmetant has now been released in 1.5-litre magnum bottles.
To ensure traceability and to guarantee quality and authenticity, each magnum of Challiol & Charmetant has an etched serial number on it.
The Challiol & Charmetant label dates to 1883, when it was presented at the Calcutta International Exhibition in honour of Queen Victoria, Empress of India.
The label shows “the Memsahib’s Afternoon Ride” – a British woman on an elephant’s back.
“Champagne Challiol & Charmetant” is also written on the label in Devanagari.
Challiol & Charmetant is available only in 1.5-litre magnum bottles, sealed with a string and wax “ancienne” closure.
