Let the corks fly out for Christmas
Dec 15, 2021
4 minutes
I TEND to be sceptical about the designation ‘golden age’ (golden for some, less glittery for others), but I do believe this is a golden age of sparkling wine. For a long time, Champagne rested on its laurels, managing to charge exceptionally high prices for what was often indifferent, thin, acidic fizz. The profits, it must be said, didn’t only go to the big smart houses (the grandes marques), but also to the grape growers, so that many small villages in the Côte des Blancs and the Montagne de Reims could be said to be populated only by millionaires.
Then came the competition,
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