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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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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 is being used mercilessly by the big UK retailers to fight for your custom. Be circumspect in which 'bargain' you choose see, for example, our updated Champagne deals – the good... |
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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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The UK pre-Christmas supermarket champagne wars are hotting up. See members' forum for comment on Morrisons supposed special deal on half price Bollinger, for example. Today, their... |
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Earlier this month a dozen of us gathered at London’s Connaught Hotel to taste a range of Pol Roger vintage champagnes, many of them kindly supplied by a Finnish collector. We tasted them in... |
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Olivier, the charming son of Henri, Krug was in London last Thursday to launch the second-ever vintage, 1996, of Krug’s stratospherically priced all-Pinot Noir Clos d’Ambonnay. The 1995 is... |
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Non-vintage champagne based on the 2009 harvest should be particularly good, even though we may have to wait longer than usual for them. Tough market conditions are also delaying the release... |
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Some producers are already pronouncing the 2009 Champagne harvest 'excellent' and comparing it with vintages such as 1982 and 1989. Among the 15 or so producers (both houses and growers) I have... |
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The LVMH-owned champagne house Ruinart celebrated the 50th anniversary of their prestige cuvée Dom Ruinart by organising a vertical tasting of just about every vintage of it ever made, at the... |
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From €13.29, £17.99, $30.99, NZ$66.99, AU$65 Find Marc Chauvet NV Find Eric Rodez champagnes The British media have recently been bedazzled by the... |
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Charles Philipponnat was in London on Wednesday night for a dinner organised by Bordeaux Index at The Ledbury, wine lovers' home away from home, featuring champagnes grown in his family's... |
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19 Nov - See more details about the composition of Armand de Brignac cuvees kindly supplied by Tom Stevenson after a visit to Cattier below. Attentive purple pagers may remember... |
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Those who read my detailed account of the Great Danish Wine Dinner in Even better 'wines of the century'? will have read that the other foreign guest was Pekka Nuikki, Finnish publisher of FINE... |
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The 2009 Champagne harvest starts today in some of the grands crus of the Côte des Blancs such as Cramant, Avize, Chouilly and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. Picking of the first black grapes – Pinot Noir... |
