Dear Wine Girl:
I am not a big Champagne fan but your post did get the tastebuds tingling. Can’t wait to try the new Champagne if it ever makes its way over to the UK.
Glasgow Sally

Thanks for visiting Wine Girl, all the way from Glasgow.
I have never before met a British person, even via email, who said she is not a big Champagne fan! Originally in fact it was the British craze over this strange, fizzy wine from France that made the Champagne market. The wonderful English wine critic Hugh Johnson talks about grower-champagnes a bit (not highly, interestingly enough, but this was a while ago) in “A Life Uncorked” and I’m sure there are plenty representatives of the category in the UK, even in your Scottish neck of the woods. Here’s a tip: look for RM or SR on the label. That stands for “Recoltant-Manipulant” or “Societé de Recoltants,” which means the wine was farmed and bottled by the same guy or gal (rather than purchased as grapes by a big producer).
Click here for a very informative story about grower champagnes (which I was delighted to find are sometimes dismissed by their critics as “farmer fizz”).
Cheers,
Heather