Blanc de blanc

Yesterday our friends from the UK arrived for this year’s Champagne festival. We’d nipped into Bar-sur-Seine to the tourist office to buy their tickets for them in readiness. We haven’t been together as a group for over 5 years so there’s a lot to catch up on.

We started our Champagne tasting journey by a visit to our local producer, Robert GrandPierre. There is another British family who have a holiday home in our village, so we asked if their group wanted to join us. It was a fabulous tasting of their blanc de blanc, réserve, prestige and finally their rosé de saignée. All are wonderfully made wines, but a favourite of ours at the moment is their blanc de blanc, 100% Chardonnay. It was quite a happy, and very chatty little excursion.