Union Square | Piper-Heidsieck & Champagne Rare Takeover with Charles Springfield

Please join Corkbuzz in welcoming Charles Springfield, Brand Ambassador for Piper-Heidsieck & Rare Champagne!

When: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 5-7 pm

Where: 13 E 13th St. New York, NY 10003

What: Featured Flights and Wine by the Glass from Piper-Heidsieck & Champagne Rare

About Charles:

CHARLES SPRINGFIELD is a certified sommelier, wine educator and book author in New York City where he developed a tailor-made lifestyle company focusing on his approach to wine, events and joie de vivre (the joy of living). He specializes in matching the right wines with the right people and the right occasions: teaching wine classes, hosting wine events and promoting overall wine appreciation.

Charles uses his love of wine to provide guidance on appreciating, understanding and enjoying wine in ways people never imaged possible.

Most recently, Charles has worked with a wide range of brands and companies including New York Vintners, The House of Burgundy, Wine.com, Adega Wines and Spirits, and Corkbuzz. In 2017, he was featured as one of the Top 40 Black/African American Sommeliers in the country by LinkedIn. In early 2018, he launched a YouTube channel focused on all-things wine and wine-related called “Maneuvering Wine with Style.” He has authored two wine education books called “The Less Is More Approach to Wine” and “Maneuvering Rosé Wine With Style.” And in 2020, Springfield was spotlighted by former NBA champion Dwyane Wade’s wine company, Wade Cellars, as one of the "Black Wine influencers Changing The Wine Game.”

He expanded his resumé in 2023 by becoming the Champagne Brand Ambassador for Piper-Heidsieck and Rare Champagne brands for the New York market. 

Charles holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree of science degree in Mass Communication, both obtained from Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.

He is also certified by the Sommelier Society of America based in New York City.

About Piper-Heidsieck & Rare:

Founded as Heidsick by Florens-Louis Heidsieck in 1785, the forerunner to today’s Piper-Heidsieck, Charles Heidsieck, and Heidsieck Monopole. Rare was started as the Prestige Cuvée of Piper-Heidsieck, but due to its renown and popularity was split off as its own brand in 2018. Rare Champagne is of noble origin which dates back to 1785 when Queen Marie Antoinette tasted the House’s first cuvee.  Limited-production and unabashedly exclusive, Rare Champagne is a regal rejection of convention and an extraordinary occurrence, with only 13 vintages having been released in the last 4 decades: 1976, 1979, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2007,  2008, 2013. and Rare Rosé Millésime 2007 and 2008. Cellar Master, Régis Camus, the most awarded cellar master in the world*, only produces this iconic champagne in the most exceptional of vintages - vintages with distinctive character and unparalleled longevity.  Each Rare Millésime is born from a struggle with nature, for instance Rare Millésime 1976 was created after an exceptional drought and Rare Millésime 1985 was created following a terrible black frost.  Defying the usual approach to terroir selection, blending and storage, Régis selects the vineyards according to their expression rather than their rank in the scale of Premier and Grand Crus.  He prefers the Pinot Noir grapes from Verzy or Aÿ for their sheer intensity and powerful silky texture and he selects Chardonnay grapes from the Montagne de Reims, a region famous for Pinot Noir.  He thinks outside the box and uses an unconventional blending approach to create an emblematic silky texture, endless freshness and precise minerality. One of the top five prestige cuvées of the world, Rare Champagne is internationally renowned for its distinguished style, its unique blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, for its signature exotic notes, and for its infinite freshness and purity.  

Reservations are encouraged, but not required.  Our full wine list and dinner menu are available.