Tom Glasgow
Thomas W Glasgow
As reported in FT re: a comparison of Big House versus Grower Champagnes:
"London wine brokers Fine & Rare Wines organised this revealing comparison. They had observed the fashion for growers champagnes and wanted to add some to their list. Accordingly they went out in search of names they thought were not so far represented in the UK (although Montrachet already imports Tarlant, H&H Bancroft has Pierre Moncuit, and Gauntleys of Nottingham sells Rodez, for example). "
"The other criterion was that their wines should have won approval from either the American magazine Wine Spectator or the American burgundy specialist Allen Meadows (aka Burghound) who has recently branched out into the fizzy stuff. I suggested that perhaps French sources such as La Revue du Vin de France might also have been a useful source of recommendations, being so much closer to the Champagne region, but was told firmly that the Americans had been chosen instead because our customers trust them. So much for the cheese-eaters."
Seems like a flawed, if not laughable, study of grower champagne.
"London wine brokers Fine & Rare Wines organised this revealing comparison. They had observed the fashion for growers champagnes and wanted to add some to their list. Accordingly they went out in search of names they thought were not so far represented in the UK (although Montrachet already imports Tarlant, H&H Bancroft has Pierre Moncuit, and Gauntleys of Nottingham sells Rodez, for example). "
"The other criterion was that their wines should have won approval from either the American magazine Wine Spectator or the American burgundy specialist Allen Meadows (aka Burghound) who has recently branched out into the fizzy stuff. I suggested that perhaps French sources such as La Revue du Vin de France might also have been a useful source of recommendations, being so much closer to the Champagne region, but was told firmly that the Americans had been chosen instead because our customers trust them. So much for the cheese-eaters."
Seems like a flawed, if not laughable, study of grower champagne.