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Nyetimber: An English rival to Champagne

At 385 acres Nyetimber is the largest vineyard in the UK and its wine is arguably the most famous. It has grown from an initial 35 acres planted in 1987

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All about bubbles

Perhaps I wasn’t concentrating hard enough at wine school, but I never really understood how the bubbles in Champagne worked. There always seemed a little bit of alchemy in there somewhere.

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Mid-morning Ruinart

Winston Churchill’s Champagne habit is well known – at 11am he enjoyed his first drink of the day, an Imperial Pint of Pol Roger’s Winston Churchill. That’s two thirds

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Our man in Paraguay

With my 60th birthday approaching I was thinking about the best deal I ever did. During the mid-seventies I was the unofficial agent for Louis Roederer in Paraguay. 500 cases of Cristal

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Disreputable clients

I had managed to blank it from my memory, but was reminded the other day that I once sold Gary Glitter ten cases of Krug 1943. At least he had good taste in Champagne.

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