Champagne

Tasting articles A small tasting that revealed the fascinating and unpredictable effects of ageing champagne under the sea. ‘This is going to...

Inside information Louis Roederer’s take on the particularly ripe, early 2018 harvest in Champagne. Champagne specialist Tim Hall interviewed Louis Roederer’s chef...

Free for all This article, of which a version is published by the Financial Times , and Thursday’s battle of the prestige cuvées...

Tasting articles That English sparkling wine v champagne blind comparison moves up a notch or two. See also 1086 – another triumph...

Wines of the week From 24 Swiss francs in bond, £26.60, €31.90, $39.99, HK$320, 4,830 Japanese yen Find this wine It’s rather fashionable to...

Free for all A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See also New wave champagnes 2018. Draw near, children...

Tasting articles See also How to be a new wave champagne producer. If you click on the 'growers' champagne' tag at the...

Free for all It’s mid June, and we’re sitting in the kitchen in a small village in the Aude, watching rain lashing the...

Wines of the week Louis Pommery English sparkling wine £39.99 Pommery champagne widely available internationally, from €21, $29.97, £35.95 Find the English version Find...

Tasting articles In my 42 years writing about wine I have frequently had to pinch myself as I sit down to enjoy...

Free for all We are publishing free for everyone three of Tam's 40+ book reviews that so entertained Purple Pagers over the recent...

Hemming's spittoon Last month I attempted to prove that the label on a bottle of wine is far more important to us...

Free for all A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . It is the last in a series of...

Book reviews There are four really good books on champagne here, and each one serves a different purpose, gives a different perspective...

Book reviews The first of our end-of-year book reviews starts, perhaps fittingly, with champagne (also surveyed in today's tasting article). And in...

Tasting articles As Tam notes today in the first of her 13 collections of book reviews, to be published over the next...