Billecart-Salmon Areas

  • Home of some of the world`s best sparkling wine since the 17th century, though not without help from the English, who after all got there first, in Somerset of all places. The method and the nomenclature are heavily protected throughout the world. Champagne`s production method is the most manipulative of all wine, with two alcoholic fermentations, careful blending and two periods of maturation...
  • This covers a multitude of sins from that mythical beast the `good` cava, to English sparkling - the future of our industry, to Prosecco, to the myriad of New World sparklers that take, in one way or another, their inspiration from the wines of Champagne. (18/01/12)