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 with more [...]

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 the suspense [...]