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Champagne: Drappier, Louis Chaurey, Franck Bonville, Pierre Gimonnet, Tesco Premier Cru, Gosset, Bollinger...

As from June 2015, all posts and features on Champagne are now appearing on this site rather than WW.com (some of the links below will still go there until I sort them out). "Go figure," you might be saying (Champagne, Mediterranean?); but the idea is that everything French will end up here eventually, starting with the first link below to a post on a Drappier special cuvée.
And coming soon(ish): a Champagne de Vignerons special feature ('growers' Champagne, i.e. smaller vineyard owners who make Champers from their own grapes rather than selling them to the big houses)...


Champagne & sparkling wines festive fizz (Dec 2013) featuring nice bottles that crossed my path: Cava, Prosecco, the Cape, England, Champagne and sparkling Shiraz.

A couple of Champagnes "of the moment": Champagne Louis Chaurey Brut (M&S) and Premier Cru Champagne (Tesco) (New Year's Eve 2012, updated with super-duper Croser Sparkling from Aus).

Champers vs English fizz: Pierre Gimonnet et Fils and Gusbourne Estate, Kent (Sept 2011).

"Yawn, yet another luxury special edition..." : Champagne Gosset (Dec 2009).

Pass the Bolly or "if it's the 85 you were expecting me...": Bollinger feast including some fab old vintages (May 2004).

As for other French fizz: Crémant de Bourgogne which you'll find there on my Burgundy page.
Limoux fizz which is about to be updated (summer 2015) plus there's this too: Delmas Crémant de Limoux (Jan 2010).
Fizz of the moment: Royal Seyssel Brut: "Obscure yet pretty sparkling wine region in Savoy on the way up to skiing country in the French Alps..." (Sept 2010).

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