The British are notoriously cheap when it comes to wine; the average bottle price is around £6. On one wine, however, we’re happy to spend five times that: champagne. We love champagne, and champagne producers love us: Britain is their biggest export market and it’s only getting bigger: up by 4.5
Henry Jeffreys
Notes on… Champagne
It was aimed at the English middle classes in the first place, but now we’re beating it in taste tests

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