Stephen Hawk

There’s sparkling wine. There’s Champagne. And then, as far as I’m concerned, there is Dom Pérignon. Sparkling wine is simply wine that contains bubbles of carbon dioxide gas. There are four methods of infusing the wine with bubbles, which I won’t bother with here and fizzy wine is made around the world. ‘Champagne’ has for…

The story of Bollinger Champagne began with Athanase de Villermont, the youngest son of a noble family. He inherited an extensive estate from his family in the Aÿ area of France. He foresaw the potential of the wines of Champagne, but as an aristocrat, he was forbidden to become involved in the trade. Happily, he…