Well it's that time of year when we are to expect my opera-singing b-i-l and his (Mrs H's) doting but decrepit parents. His country house is near Chaource in France and he knows a lot about wine, certainly by my standards. He'll be clutching a grimy champagne bottle or two with the parchment labels stuck on wobbly by some geriatric French dipsomaniac and telling us all how he's found a case or two of this special vintage bubbly.
With a lot of faffing with the tea towel and adopting a faintly ridiculous stance, he'll edge out the cork and pour the champagne on Christmas day and everyone will say how delicious and special this particular vintage is and agree that there is nutmeg and raspberry and fennel in there and that the vines were grown on the sunny side of the hill blah blah blah.
Except me. Am I alone in thinking that champagne isn't particularly special; just fizzy white wine? I'll be surreptitiously passing my glass to Mrs H and cracking a tinny of Old Speckled Hen or similar at the first opportunity.
What am I missing ?
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