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Over breakfast at Maialino during my recent stay in New York described in Young Americans, bless them , I quizzed the man responsible for Dom Pérignon, Richard Geoffroy, about the challenging...

Tags:  2011, Champagne

Pink champagne, once dismissed as a frivolous irrelevance, is now being taken seriously. So seriously that it is creating major headaches for producers in France's Champagne region thanks to...

The short film below sets the vertiginous scene for an extraordinary tasting of a dozen vintages of Bollinger RD in Paris last Friday.  For an account and my tasting notes, see A half...

Tags:  champagne

I've come across a really excellent, attractive, up-to-the-minute guide to the champagnes currently on the market. You might assume it would be written by one of the accredited champagne...

I realise that we underpriced our Tenth Anniversary Champagne Celebration last December, asking Purple pagers to pay just £40 to our pet charity Room to Read in exchange for a tasting of...

Tags:  champagne

See also Celebrating the first decade - a first report . Who would have guessed that Thursday 2 Dec would turn out to be one of London's coldest and most snow-afflicted ever (see, for...

There seems little doubt that 2002 is an exceptional vintage for champagne. You can find six champagnes based on the well-favoured, intense yet well-balanced 2002 vintage in my selection of 40+...

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In 2006 the first branch of The Sampler wine shop in Islington broke new ground in wine retailing for London, offering its customers small tasting samples of about 80 fine wines and carrying a...

I'm publishing this today to celebrate a rather terrifying birthday of mine. All in all, average quality in this collection of current rosé champagnes is pretty good - certainly much better than...

Tags:  rosé champagne

£14.99 Good to see UK posh supermarket Marks & Spencer getting into the champagne discounting mood with such an attractive pink champagne as this one. Actually, I think in...

Tags:  Champagne

It's always interesting to monitor the latest champagne vintages and I've had a couple of chances recently: one tasting a selection of champagnes submitted for British Airways first class that I...

In champagne's major export markets, which, now I come to think of it, coincide rather neatly with those countries where my newspaper the FT is most read, the current fashion is for growers'...

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The following tasting notes were made last week at a blind tasting of 64 non-vintage and vintage champagnes organised by the London wine broker Fine & Rare Wines. Most of the wines came from...

31 Dec - Taittinger at £15 again at Asda, joined by Moet, and another well known name at Tesco - see red. 18 Dec - another £10 deal from Tesco starts today, shown in red below...

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Champagne retail prices in France and the UK continue to fall, depressed by stocks at an all time record high. UK champagne bargains It was already clear some weeks ago that champagne...

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