Wines this week have slightly high price points

For many people in Ireland there are just one or two Champagne brands, I won’t mention them but let’s just say the one with the orange label and the other one.

Both have huge production figures (Moet makes over 26 million bottles per year) and are serviceable, but not my favourites.

I have always had a soft spot for the family-owned houses such as Pol Roger, Louis Roederer, and Bollinger but the Champagne for which I have perhaps the warmest place in my heart is Charles Heidsieck, given its part in the courtship of my wife.