Recently tasted grower champagnes

Longstanding visitors to this site know that we are convinced that some of the best value in champagne is in bottles from smaller-scale producers, the so-called growers' champagnes (readily identifiable by the code RM on the label – as opposed to NM for one of the bigger houses that buy in grapes and/or wine). The letters themselves are by no means sufficient. There is some pretty awful grower champagne out there – particularly on French supermarket shelves. But the collection below was hand-picked either by the London store The Sampler who have specialised in this sort of champagne for some...