I was lucky enough to be posted in the Billecart Salmon room which happens to be my favourite rosé champagne. I was joined by two Billecart agents

De Bruyne is our new house Champagne that we began working with about 8 months ago. Because of the strong euro, we were keen to find a new house 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

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.

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