Allouchery-Bailly & Barrat-Masson First off, apologies for the lag of this here communique. I received and rang these selections last week, and intended to have the notes ready to go shortly thereafter, but couldn’t finish before...

Champagne is so internationally famous, such a universal shorthand for all things quality, luxury and convivial (off the top of my head: Miller Hi-Life ‘the champagne of beers’; Churchill’s quip that meeting FDR for the...

Guy Charlemagne & Louise Brison       Close your eyes, count to Champagne and you might picture two figures right away: Dom Perignon and Veuve Clicquot. You could call them the First Couple of Bubbly or whatever,...

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS WINE I don’t really have a unifying theme this month, just two great and well-priced bottles to get you through the last of the winter doldrums, or save and pop when more daylight...

Mouzon-Leroux L’Ineffable Blanc de Noirs 2017   You might associate the year 1776 with a handful of epochal USA events, but my five minutes of research just now suggests that the whole world had a...