It’s an interesting day when both The Guardian and the BBC run stories on champagne – and I wonder if it is coincidental that it is the same day that Gordon Brown is to address the Labour Party conference in Brighton? Maybe Andrew Marr will suggest that the Prime Minister should take a leaf out …
Monthly Archive: September 2009
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Sep
23
Royal Academy of Music
You know that you have very good friends when asked to join a small party at an invitation only Sir Elton John concert at the Royal Albert Hall (London) and meet the great man afterwards… you both know who you are and huge thanks from us if you ever read this note. Sir Elton’s concert …
Sep
21
Harvest – the pressing
Champagne is a big subject; controversial and emotive with nearly everyone having a different opinion as to which champagne they prefer and why. Certainly with 8,000 producers in the region and each producing probably three different styles, there is plenty of choice! We are often asked which is the “best” champagne; what a question and …
Sep
17
Harvest – busy busy
So here it is – and you heard it first on Alastair’s champagne blog: 2009 looks to be an EXCEPTIONAL harvest. That means not just an ordinarily good harvest that could qualify as a vintage declaration; it means an EXCEPTIONAL harvest and that is not a word to use unadvisedly or lightly but rather reverently …
Sep
10
Harvest – snip snip
So my champagne blog update continues! This is really a very very interesting time of year for champagne wine and its production – with a manic burst of activity universal across all 30,000 hectares of vineyards that make up the appellation. Today it happened; from all over Europe teams of people descended on the vines …
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