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CHAMPAGNES TO SEE OUT THE SUMMER

AMY WISLOCKI

Billecart-Salmon’s summer party had a back-to-school air about it, postponed as it was from July until early September. In the glamorous setting of social hotspot Louie, a stone’s throw from London’s Covent Garden, wine trade and media toasted being together in person with the Champagne house’s , its and – the star of the proceedings– the recently released prestige cuvée . Wow, nothing remotely frivolous about this rosé; it’s youthful but still so enjoyable,

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