This is interesting. Full page advert in one of the Sunday newspaper magazines (5 December 2010). Tesco reminding everyone that their finest premier cru NV champagne is matured in the bottle for 24 months. This is good news: 9 months more than the minimum requirement and bottle age does make a huge difference. In an …
Category Archive: champagne production
Dec
06
Oct
25
Champagne cellar moment
My friend Tara, the Wine Passionista, has asked me to contribute a short article to a book she is writing. This set the create juices flowing. I knew what she meant about wanting a “memorable wine moment” and I can think of quite a few. But what leapt out at me most was a totally …
Sep
18
Harvest update
Down at the Villevenard HQ of the Nominé family, the harvest is in full swing. Simon Nominé very kindly sent through these snaps from his phone (no news of his new baby yet…) and they are so raw they really deserve to be shared immediately! At harvest time, the grapes are cut by hand in …
Sep
09
Time flies
Just amazing to see how fast time slips by; twelve months ago I was writing about the imminent harvest in the Champagne region and here we are again. Had a surprise and fairly unplanned visit over to France on 30 August to collect some emergency supplies from the cellar stairway – so to speak. Successful …
Apr
07
Spring from winter
March seemed to flit by, notwithstanding the horrid weather. It was a busy period at Park Lane with our plans for personalised champagne moving forward and gathering traction and shape throughout the month. If anyone knows someone who would be a super salesperson for the corporate champagne market in London, please email me – in …
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