Oct
14
Farming is diverse. I am a farmer (Highland Cattle), I have friends who are farmers and our champagne producers are also farmers. Like me, they nurture and grow their raw material (grapes), at the mercy of the elements and making best use of their natural resources. Terroir helps explain the unique characteristic of wines due …
Sep
21
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
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
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
03
I am not trying to becomes the UK’s most prolific blogger and nor to create the most comprehensive champagne blog, but hopefully these jottings help you to sneak a peek under the petticoats of this amazing wine. So in response to Toby, the CIVC dictate how many kilos of grapes per hectare can be harvested. …
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