If you’re into champagne, Singapore Airlines’ business class experience is about to get even better, as flagged by Mainly Miles.
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Singapore Airlines serving Piper-Heidsieck Brut Vintage 2018
New as of December 1, 2024, Singapore Airlines is serving Piper-Heidsieck Brut Vintage 2018 in business class throughout its network, on all routes that offer champagne (this just excludes flights to Kuala Lumpur, Medan, and Penang).
Now, I’m not going to claim to be a wine critic, but this champagne gets very high scores from most experts, and retails for somewhere around $100 per bottle, making it one of the best regarded and most expensive champagnes you’ll find on any airline in business class.
It’s not yet known for how long Singapore Airlines will be serving this, though the airline lets you look up the menu and wine list for flights in advance, so you can always see what’s expected to be offered on your flight. I think it’s also worth calling out how Singapore Airlines is one of the few airlines to serve the same champagne throughout its network — it doesn’t matter if you’re flying from Singapore to Bangkok or New York.
For context on the carrier’s champagne selection, the airline generally serves some solid non-vintage champagne options. However, we’ve seen the airline offer vintage champagne a couple of times in recent years. In business class, Singapore Airlines was serving Piper-Heidsieck Brut Vintage 2012 in business class in late 2021, and was then serving Piper-Heidsieck Brut Vintage 2014 in early 2024. The 2018 vintage is newly released, so it’s nice to see that being served.
Singapore Airlines offers such a great experience
Personally I consider Singapore Airlines to be one of the world’s best airline brands, and to offer one of the best business class experiences out there. This largely comes down to the carrier’s exceptional service, the great food (thanks in part to the “Book the Cook” program), endless entertainment, and even free Wi-Fi.
Ironically, I’d argue that the weak point of the Singapore Airlines business class experience is the seat. While the airline has a few different kinds of business class seats, none of them are industry leading, with long haul seats requiring you to sleep at an odd angle, and lacking padding.
The airline is expected to be introduce a new business class product as of 2026. This will be retrofitted on the carrier’s long haul Airbus A350-900s, and will also be installed on newly delivered Boeing 777-9s, if/when they’re delivered. I can’t wait to learn the full details of Singapore Airlines’ new product.
Bottom line
Singapore Airlines is upgrading its business class champagne — as of December 2024, the airline is serving Piper-Heidsieck Brut Vintage 2018 in business class throughout the network. This is one of the best champagnes you’ll find in business class on any airline, so this sure is a treat.
Anyone flying Singapore Airlines business class soon, and looking forward to having a glass?
Not a bad drop, but for the fares airlines charge in biz they should all be doing much better with the wine selections. The fares are often only a little less than first class, and the soft product should reflect that.
I love good wine. The bubbly stuff does nothing for me. I'd prefer them to spend big dollars on things I want more.
This isn’t new. They’ve been serving this for ages. They were serving this in July.
SQ might be great in Business, but I recently had two flights with them in Economy and felt treated like a 2nd class citizen. On the 5h flight to Perth I only saw one round of drinks (with the meal) and they were almost reluctant to give water in the aft-galley. Worse than most UA flights I took. F/As always looked busy but were doing basically nothing.
With their bad elite recognition in Economy...
SQ might be great in Business, but I recently had two flights with them in Economy and felt treated like a 2nd class citizen. On the 5h flight to Perth I only saw one round of drinks (with the meal) and they were almost reluctant to give water in the aft-galley. Worse than most UA flights I took. F/As always looked busy but were doing basically nothing.
With their bad elite recognition in Economy I will not pay any premium to fly them again, even if this was just a bad flight. Silverkris Lounge in BKK was great though.
Book the cook and the lobster thermidor gets SQ a lot of love, deservedly so. But my last two flights with Qatar have featured a lobster just as good as SQs and caviar to boot.
I will always fly 1st class now so that I can have great champagne!!! Makes paying $4000 for a glass of champagne well worth it.
It might be but Qatar is less reliable as often changes aircrafts and usually there are 2 flights for 7-8 hrs each. SQ often offers direct flight or stopover in Europe which gives 1 very long flight so much easier to sleep/rest.
Piper 2018 is too young. Needs a few more years to develop. The 2008 and 2012 would be going decently though.
The thing with their usual Charles Heidsieck is it's built a lot like Krug and with solera reserve wines so it's more well rounded tbh especially for in air consumption.
Korean Air serves Piper Rare 2007/Charles Heidsieck millesime in certain routes