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 …
Tag Archive: Non-Vintage
Sep
10
Sep
03
Harvest yields
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. …
Jun
04
Highland cows and champagne?!
Nick leading Calum out at the Surrey County Show with me at a safe distance behind, armed with a stick! As a main business, we also breed highland cows at our farm on the Surrey/Sussex and Kent borders. These are fabulous beasts being much more docile than they may look with their spectacular horns. Sadly …
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