The Sixth Day of Christmas with Champagne and Sparkling Wine

While the trend today is for what's called "grower Champagne" or sometimes "artisanal" or "farmhouse" Champagne, with implications of a hands-on family approach from vineyard through final disgorgement, don't forget that the grande marques, the Big Houses, so to speak, which obtain most of their grapes on long-term contract, can still

provide sublime dri…