Popping the cork for crémant, the affordable alternative to champagne

As sales of sparkling wine continue to soar, one aromatic French fizz is worthy of particular appreciation It was in the middle of the pandemic that I ceased stashing sparkling wine. There were no special occasions, or occasions at all, really, save for daily episodes of the BBC’s Baby Club with two cabin-fevered infants and the weekly thrill of a veg box. I might have been stockpiling chickpeas, but I was cracking bubbles open willy-nilly because, well, why not? And I never stopped. The unr...

By Mina Holland