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
Classification of Champagne vineyards of the grapes used to make Champagne needed to come from the Champagne region itself. With vineyard owners vastly outnumbering the producers, the Champagne houses used this dynamic of excess supply vs limited demand to their advantage. They hired agents, known as "commissionaires", to negotiate prices with vine growers. These commissionaires were paid according to how low a price they could negotiate and many employed unsavory tactics to achieve their means-including violence and intimidation. Some commissionaires openly sought bribes from vine growers, often in the form of extra grapes which they would sell themselves for extra profit. The prices they