Champagne

Free for all The world's first International Sparkling Wine Symposium will take place in the UK on Wednesday 18 Mar 2009 at Denbies...

Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. As champagne shipments plummet and retailers...

Tasting articles These 30+ vintage and de luxe champagnes were tasted blind in response to a tender for British Airways first class...

Free for all A colleague on the Financial Times recently sent me this query: Can I ask you to settle a mild debate...

Don't quote me When a product range is launched in an imposing marble-clad room featuring towering mahogany thrones, ornate gold-plated friezes and a...

Don't quote me Was anyone else surprised listening earlier today to the scientists currently hard at work replicating Big Bang at the CERN...

Tasting articles Here’s a collection of tasting notes on 26 very different current champagnes. The growers’ champagnes are by and large the...

Free for all The Champenois have a cheek. First they present us with some of the world’s most expensive wine and now they’re...

Tasting articles Of all the wines in the world, champagne is the big success story. While other French wine regions have struggled...

Inside information See also 80 current NV champagnes reviewed. At a recent party to celebrate the 'refreshment' of the Weekend FT, Bollinger's...

Free for all The following eight champagnes are being presented by merchants Laytons at a hotel in Cobham, Surrey, on Monday 7 Jul...

Wines of the week I know that only about a third of you are based in the UK so I apologise for focussing this...

Tasting articles Here, in advance of the list of best sparkling buys I’m preparing for 15 Dec, is my account of a...

Free for all Bibendum Wine of London NW1 are currently offering Louis Roederer Brut Premier NV and Billecart Salmon Brut Réserve NV at...

Don't quote me Woolworths is a chain of distinctly downmarket stores throughout the UK but someone there has had a brilliant idea and...

Inside information I have been increasingly impressed by the quality of traditional method sparkling wines made at LVMH’s outpost in the Yarra...