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In the Magazine
CHAMPAGNE FOCUS – October 2007
| CHAMPAGNEÂ FOCUS October 2007
Overview • Supply • Exports • Trends • Co-ops • UK Retail Everthing you need to know about Champagne: stylistic innovation, supply issues, key export markets, retail strategy, and the growing dominance of the co-ops |
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Champagne raises the bar yet again as higher yields provide a comfort zone for further growth. Pat Straker reports |
With worldwide financial turbulence shaking confidence in consumer spending and much speculation about grape shortages, Michael Edwards asks what’s at stake in Champagne |
TRENDS: Staying ahead of the game Despite being highly regulated, Champagne still offers producers a number of opportunities to stand out from the crowd with different styles. Patrick Schmitt hunts out the trendsetters |
Trade talk from: Graham Nash, Terence Kenny, Chris Seale, Colin Cameron, Sally Warmington, Bill Gunn, Jonathan Stevens, Dee Blackstock, James Samson, Lynn Murray & David Hesketh |
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Champagne’s cooperatives support the grand marques but are a force to be reckoned with in their own right. Giles Fallowfield reports |
As the days draw in and winter approaches, Clinton Cawood finds out what strategies the Champagne trade is devising to maximise sales of the fizzy stuff over the festive season |
We asked Jean-Pierre Ellne, Jonathan Saxby, Tony Dee & Jean Marc Lallier: “What are your thoughts on the new Worthit Champagne, sold by Woolworths for a fiver?” |
If you believe the hype, consumers in China, India and Russia are prepared to pay over the odds to get their hands on luxury products. |