Apr
08
It’s all starting! A visit last week to Champagne, en route back from Burgundy (which is entirely another story), showed those very first new shoots and buds forming. Interestingly, the georgaphy of the region was underlined as the vineyards in Champagne were definitely three to five days behind those in Burgundy. The pictures of this …
Sep
29
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 …
Sep
10
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 …
Sep
01
Pinch punch and all that as the first of September is now with us. A busy month on all fronts as the different European countries start to rub the holiday sand from their eyes. Who knows how things will pan out in this sprint up to Christmas but one thing is for certain – it …
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