Category Archive: online

Sep
09

Time flies

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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 …

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Apr
17

Funny Old World

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Amid all the Election fever – and are those party leader live debates a good thing? – I never predicted a surge in champagne demand from nearly every category of customer we deal with; strange but true! Maybe it is the time of year;  maybe it is collective joy at emerging from the toughest winter …

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Feb
25

The underworld

The real Rebecca Romero: medal winning at Beijing in 2008

Sorry folks – not the mystical World of Hades reached only by crossing the river Styx.  Instead the murky underworld of crime;  online fraud has hit us – and that is scarey! We all get spam emails and countless viagra offers, etc., but duff transactions with validated cards?  Now that IS news – at least …

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