Recoltant Manipulant …or Farmer Fizz
The Champagne barometer of fun and bubbles has seen COVID19 wash away the flagging 2019 sales of Champagne in Australia, to experience a fizzy buoyancy of consumption. Statistically it all started to turn around on Mother’s Day 2020, a day that marked the first celebration period following COVID lockdown. But that is here in the land down under – not the rest of the world where celebratory social events have been locked down to an abstemious trickle. Bubbling along within this effervescent celebration is the rising trend of the obscure on wine lists. And in the Champagne stakes that can mean “Grower Champagnes” or “récoltant manipulant” (RM) Champagnes.
Pulling the cork on sparkling wine
When I recently learned that wine company Evan & Tate had produced its Zamphire sparkling wine with a plastic re-sealable closure I instantly thought of my father. I remembered his apoplectic outburst when I told him that I had discovered a champagne bottle re-sealing device. I jubilantly explained that you could reseal a bottle of … Continue reading
The White Stuff 