Has our love affair with J.M.Gobillard & Fils finished? This has been our main House Champagne for almost fifteen years now. We are still massive fans but with recent Champagne price increases (pretty much gone are the days of supermarkets selling obscure, often poor, Champagne Houses for a tenner) the Gobillard 1er Cru should in theory be retailing at £ 26.50. Enfin, un peu trop cher. Just before our recent hop to Bordeaux we sampled a teeny weenie little property, which is overlooked by the Hotel Champagne which I am sure some of you will know, and have decided to take R. & H. Lamotte Premier Cru as our new House Champagne. As an exclusive import to us this can be fractionally but sufficiently cheaper at an opening offer of £ 23.00. This is where we feel the Gobillard should be price wise but it isn’t!
R. & H. Lamotte Premier Cru Champagne, Champillon
at £ 23.00 per Bottle
This is the epitome of where a Champagne becomes more than just a Champagne but a wine in its own right.
Full-bodied, flavoursome, complex. Lovely secondary flavours. Distinctive, characterful, harmonious. And all that in a House Champagne!
Most people’s House Champagne will be pennies or pounds cheaper but they won’t be a patch on this elegantly crafted Premier Cru.
£ 15.00 per Half-Bottle
And £ 52.00 per Magnum
We are delighted to take on board this family-run Champagne House which produces a modest 2,000 Cases from their three hectare Premier Cru holdings in the Village of Champillon. This cuvée is predominantly Pinot Noir and the balance, Chardonnay. No Pinot Meunier. And it has three years bottle-age.
We will be shipping at the end of the month or the first week of May.
Sub £ 10.00 Provence Rosé.
Also delighted, once the warm weather returns, that we will be getting in a very well-priced Provence Rosé (Bottles and in Magnums) which amazingly enough is produced from some friends who used to be neighbours in nearby Brunswick Gardens. The price is yet to be set but is likely to be as much the right side of £ 10 as the subtle and refined St-Baillon is the wrong side of £ 10.
Weekly indulgence:
Graham’s 1966 Vintage Port at £ 110.00 per Bottle
Like England’s World Cup victories, this just gets rarer and rarer.
At forty five years old and along with Taylor, Dow, Fonseca, one of the four self-proclaimed First Growths, this is not an outrageous price for a taste of history!
Silly-season:
Having had a wee operation on my right hand yesterday my left-handed typings are both slow and tiring. Any politics; cinema; television; restaurants etc will simply have to wait ‘til next Wednesday. Plenty of time to contemplate.
Charity:
A Marathon to me is something coated in chocolate and wrapped in brown paper. The mere mention of the word hits me with a wave of exhaustion and a simple desire to seek out the nearest sofa and gather my strength. Needless to say I have never actually run a Marathon and nor had Henry’s girlfriend, Charlotte, until last week that is and she decided to fly out to Morocco with roughly a thousand other nutters and run six Marathons in six days (the Marathon des Sables). Just thinking about that is restricting my breathing. Charlotte not only started but she finished and in doing so has currently raised an impressive £ 2,251.00 (Sue Ryder) and £ 2,186.00 (F.S.I.D.). For further details please click on the links below.
Tuggy
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