English sparkling wine is having a remarkable decade. It is made using exactly the same method that gives Champagne its bubbles — the traditional method, or méthode traditionnelle — but on chalk and flint soils that are geologically continuous with the great vineyards of the Côte des Blancs and Montagne de Reims. The grapes are...
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