Grower's Champagne

 
(Image from Decanter Website) 

There was this article about grower's champagne in Decanter recently and suddenly I got a promotion email from a wine merchant about it (although they were actually only promoting one such estate); one could be mistaken into thinking that this is the leading edge of a big trend. Well, I don't know about that but it is always interesting to see Decanter's recommendations. The 10 wines featured contained 3 familiar names, though I had only bought (but need to check notes or storage to see if I had already tasted it) only one of them.

I had known about Tarlant and Vilmart and even saw some of their products in the first of the neighbourhood wines shops I befriended, but I had bought a Pierre Peters NV wine from the Club some time ago. Before that, I had bought some champagne from the Champagne House and they had been selling champagne from the Tarlant and Vilmart, but looking up their website now, they still stock Vilmart wines, but not Tarlant, and they also have Hebrart and David Léclapart too.