Is Zero Dosage a good thing? What's the ideal sweetness level in champagne? Read on. The Drappier family above, left to right: Charline, Hugo, Antoine and Michel.
Alex Hunt MW of London importers Berkmann, once a columnist on JancisRobinson.com, organised a masterclass last month designed to educate us attendees about the issue of dosage in champagne. But in fact the main thing I learnt on this nasty wet day in London was that Champagne Drappier, ever experimental, is in extremely good hands in the form of eighth generation Charline and Hugo. (Their younger brother Antoine is in charge of...