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

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

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