Hugh Johnson: ‘We’re getting bolder with bubbles from Italy, Spain, Australia, NZ, the Cape…’

In a village where we used to stay in the centre of France, the New Year was greeted with a day of crashing glass; the bottles of the réveillon festivities and days before, all hitting the wall behind the Hotel de Ville. Families came to fling their empties at the wall, adding to the heap the council eventually carted away, I hope to a glass factory – though recycled glass is a disappointing percentage of new wine bottles.{"content":"PHA+VGhlIGJvdXF1ZXQgb2YgdGhlIGdsZWFtaW5nIGhlYXAgc