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Waitrose Cellar is the supermarket you’ll often find us touting at WinesDirect, not only for its excellent quality and championing of independent wineries over the mass brands, but also for its exceptional exclusives and exciting gems from lesser-known regions. Find yourself a hidden gem, and you are truly paying for the wine alone rather than a premium on branding or regional perception. With Master of Wine Xenia Ruscombe-King hand selecting their range, you can be sure that there is real…

Part 5 returns after the holiday rush, making now an ideal time to revisit my Champagne trip from last May. If you’re planning a summer getaway, I recommend this trip — check out my earlier blogs to get an idea of various other houses I visited as well as some general tips on Reims and Epernay. Continuing the tour, this was to be our very first day where we only visited one Champagne house (terrible I know), before having a bit more free time to explore the region around Epernay. However, it was…

Welcome to part 4, which is a little overdue. We now take the tour from the mighty city of Reims to the smaller commune of Epernay, the principal trading post for Champagne in the region and home to many of the oldest, most prestigious houses. The drive between the two iconic Champagne locations is a joy in itself. Straight through the middle of the national park, I think there was only a 10-minute stretch in a wooded area that you couldn’t see sweeping vineyards and various other recognisable…