Archive for the 'Champagne' Category

Our man in Paraguay

Monday, March 9th, 2009

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

Disreputable clients

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

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.

Expansion of the Champagne Region

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Dozens of new producers have been awarded the right to produce champagne under the first substantial expansion of the tightly controlled wine region since 1927.

Thirty eight communes (village districts) were named after decades of lobbying and feuding among councils and growers who are excluded from the official boundaries of champagne country.