Champagne trip

"The Eurostar cuts a pastel-painted blur through the spacious rural canvass like an Impressionist on speed; it’s only really when you get to Paris that it sinks in you’ve arrived in northern France, without the more customary touchdown. At about an hour and a half’s drive from the reluctant-to-leave capital, Champagne is the nearest and easiest French wine region for us to visit. And it’s pretty, green, warm in the summer, suffused with rolling hills; and they make Champagne there, so lots of good reasons..."

Read the works at the bottom of this special Champagne page here.