How fantastic it is to see the growth and already to have picked strawberries (which are perfect with Verus Yellow Muscat, by the way).
We are capturing all our rain water and so far have not used the mains water supply once to water the plants. Well, we are on a meter and we need to [...]

Other really interesting stuff about how you can improve the quality of your Champagne came to light during my visit to Marc Chauvet Champagne recently. Clotilde is at pains to stress the extra time her Champagnes are aged on the lees (dead yeast) before release. By law the wine must age with the yeast for [...]

I was in Champagne last week visiting Marc Chauvet and needed to get to the bottom of that often asked question about the size of bubbles. The “prise de mousse” as they call it comes during the secondary fermentation in bottle when extra yeast and Champagne grape juice are added to the already finished, first-fermented [...]

We were sorry to see Anna leave last month but delighted that Charles is joining us. Lucky chap - one of the first things he had to do was come to Champagne with me to learn a bit about how a quality Champagne grower makes better Champagne than the rest.
More details on such questions as “why [...]