One of the highlights so far this summer was spending a couple of days in Epernay in Champagne. We stayed in a beautiful B&B just outside Cramant, a small village in the middle of The Côte des Blancs. The house champagne was readily available in the fridge at €11/bottle. Excellent stuff (with no label). It [...]

Finally, I picked up some wines that I had stored at a friend’s place to transfer to my brothers house, where he kindly lets me borrow a wine fridge. Inevitably I ended up going through each bottle to see which would be suitable with dinner. Most stuff was still to early to drink, but we [...]

Earlier this summer we spent a week in Cancale, Bretagne, home of some of the greatest farmed oysters in the world. So far I have mainly had champagne with my oysters, typically as a starter in a posh London restaurant or in Parisian bistros. However it turned out that the most local and cheapest wine [...]