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 …
Tag Archive: Champagne
Dec
06
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
17
Recent work
It’s a quick jotting from the stump. The harvest in the Champagne region is trundling along at full swing; some live photos from our producer are awaited BUT there was a new grand-daughter due yesterday so we are not trying to push our luck too far to ask for photos when there is so much …
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 …
Aug
11
Import and export
Well this is it, really. Park Lane is an importer; every month we worsen the trade deficit a little bit as shipments of delicious bubbly head their way over to us from La Belle France. All in the justification of needs must: as Churchill reminded us (seemingly of Napoleon’s quote before him) “in victory we …
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