Champagne Palmer & Co yeast deposits for years, and for at least three years for Palmer Brut Réserve. The yeast sediment, or lees, slowly but surely adds richness to the wine and gives it a refined aromatic complexity. This voluptuous maturity is amplified with six to eight years of cellaring for the vintage cuvees and up to ten years or more for the magnums and larger format bottles. Palmer & Co is one of the very rare Champagne Houses that still produces wine in the monumental 15-litre Nebuchadnezzar. Champagne Palmer & Co Champagne Palmer & Co is a Champagne Producer based in Reims. It
History of Champagne wine for sale. During the 17th century, English glassmakers used coal-fueled ovens and produced stronger, more durable glass bottles than wood-fired French glass. The English also rediscovered the use of cork stoppers, once used by the Romans but forgotten for centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. During the cold winters of the Champagne region, temperatures would drop so low that the fermentation process was prematurely halted, leaving some residual sugar and dormant yeast. When the wine was shipped to and bottled in England, the fermentation process would restart when the weather warmed and the cork-stoppered wine would