Last Year...

New Year’s Eve Thursday December 31st, 2009

featured a glass of Charles Heidsieck, Champagne Charlie Cuvee, Brut, 1985 and Charles Heidsieck, Brut Reserve, nv

Menu by Chef Ernie Estrada Dessert by Pastry Chef Henry Wesolowski

Service by Maitre‘d Milan Djordjevic, Wine Service by Sommelier Steven Krueger 

Through our menu and service we told the story of

Charles Heidsieck's impassioned trade caused a diplomatic clash between the French and U.S. governments- Napoleon III contacted President Abraham Lincoln petitioning for a resolution to  

"The Heidsieck Incident"

Champagne Charlie

Charles Camille Heidsieck Through extreme good fortune and in spite of dastardly deeds was able to launch and re-launch his Champagne house and establish it as one the region’s premier producers!!!

Amélie Henriot-Heidsieck

Heidsieck’s devoted wife who had to sell off the family property to pay debts when Heidsieck was in prison.    

the New York Importer

Instrumental in Heidsieck’s roaring success and record sales in the U.S.  When the Civil War happened he was absolved from having to pay his debt to Heidsieck for wine sold to the South.

Napoleon III

The first President of the French Republic and the last monarch of France, a lover of Champagne and enraged over Heidsieck’s treatment in the U.S.A.  

the Good Brother

To make amends for his brother, the New York Importer, cheating Heidsieck and our country imprisoning him, the Good Brother gives Heidsieck a stack of deeds to

one third of a small,

little known village called Denver, Colorado.