Wine Club: the finest bubbly from Brimoncourt

So there I was at some swanky party, so swanky that I knew absolutely nobody. I think I was invited by mistake. I mooched about, got bored and muscled in on a group of fun-looking folk – and soon found myself chatting to one Diogo Veiga, export manager for Brimoncourt Champagne. Never heard of it, I said. Try some, he said, and I did.

Well, crikey, it fair blew my socks off, so fine a fizz was it. I can’t remember when I was last so taken aback by a wine completely new to me. Why the heck had nobody told me about Brimoncourt?

I’ve since become a devoted fan and the Maison, based in a former wine-label printing factory in Aÿ and boasting Bollinger, Gosset and Deutz as neighbours, has been added to the itinerary of our Spectator Wine Club tours of Champagne.