Posts Tagged Champagne

Unsurprisingly really with the current ongoing global economic crisis, French wine exports have fallen 25% in the first six months of 2009. Everybody’s cutting back it seems and luxuries like expensive wine, champagne (down 45%!) and cognac (down 27%) are one of the first to go. Ironically really seeing as this year I’ve been experimenting [...]

I found an interesting article in The Times the other day about a new Champagne bottle closure. Apparently the company that pioneered the screwcap for wine, Alcan Packaging, has had a go at re-inventing the closure for champagne bottles. People are frightened of the possible damage caused by an exploding cork – isn’t that half [...]