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Birthday Bubbles to Celebrate Delamotte’s 250th Year

250th birthdays are rare for Champagne – so rare that only 4 have ever been celebrated. This year marks the impressive milestone for Champagne Delamotte, making it the sixth joint oldest Champagne House. Celebrations are, most definitely, in order. To kick things off, Didier Depond, President of Champagne Delamotte and...

Champagne Salon in muddy wellies – just how it should be…

The ridiculously glitzy ‘celebratory’ status enjoyed by certain champagne brands pre-crunch made it easy to forget that champagne is in fact a hugely delicate living substance, created and wholly dependent on, ostensibly, ‘farmers.’ A wintery trip down to the prestigious Champagne village of Le Mesnil sur Oger to visit our...

and they’re off……

First blog entry since the site has gone live although there are plenty of blogs from the last few months - Dinners, Tastings, Burgundy trips etc - I have been getting things ready for a while!! It’s been a hell of a week. Last Friday saw the release of Domaine Leflaive 2008...

A great meal……..14 bts of quality….well 13

Tuesday was UGC (Union de Grand Cru) day when the trade and press gathers to taste the recently bottle vintage in this case 2007. I felt the wines were better than I expected. My picks of the reds were Domaine de Chevalier, Gazin, La Lagune and Leoville Poyferre. The sweet whites were...

Delamotte Champagne with Jean-Baptiste…

Only a quick one today as it's frankly too hot to concentrate for long!! Jean-Baptiste (on the left speaking with me at Delamotte in Jan 2008) was in London to present to the team. The wines as ever were terrific. NV, Mellow and creamy, perfect aperitif Blancs de Blancs NV, the iconic...