Wine by Leslie Williams

Champagne doesn’t have a season — I’m fairly sure most of us would drink it every day if we were let, writes Leslie Williams.

I do love the joy and distraction it can bring to dull winter days but drinking decent fizz in the sunshine with the smell of food being cooked by someone else is hard to beat.

Two recent Champagne tastings on warm days reminded me of this fact — Bollinger and Duval-Leroy. They differ in size of course but both houses are family-owned and both practice strict sustainable viticulture — a difference is that Bollinger is very much a Pinot Noir house while Duval-Leroy’s best wines are from Chardonnay.