Champagne Club June: E. Barnaut & Michel Gonet 

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...

Champagne Club - February 2025

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...

Champagne Club - December 2024

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...

Champagne Club June 24: Côte des Bar 

Côte des Bar From north to south, Champagne's kingdom comprises 5 fiefs - Montagne de Reims, Vallée de la Marne, Côte des Blancs, Côte de Sézanne and Côte des Bar - united under the crown...