Sparkling selection
Our columnist chooses the bottles guaranteed to make your Easter celebrations fizz
by JOE FATTORINI
S pringsees the start of the sporting season, for fair-weather types anyway, and for me it's no different. The annual Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships is not a Monty Python sketch, it's a thing that actually happens.
My usual role is to announce the names of contenders and winners at the ceremony. Reader, it requires a unique set of skills. With entrants from around the world, flipping flawlessly from 'Cleto Chiarli 2021 Vecchia Modena Premium in Magnum' to 'Llopart 2017 Imperial Panoramic Corpinnat' in the right accent is no small feat.