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  • The Oldie

    British bubbles

    Oct 20, 2021 3 minutes

    Oh, how I have missed this, I thought, as I gazed across a vineyard planted with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. It was bathed in a warm evening glow, I had a glass of fizz in one hand, some fine charcuterie in the other, and all was right with the world.

    I was not, however, surveying the Côte des Blancs or the Montagne de Reims. I was about 300 miles north-west of Champagne, a short drive from Arundel in West Sussex, at

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