This is a favourite of mine. It’s a big producer, with 6 million bottles produced each year.

The evening started with a tour of the old caves which were used to store the wine, only a small amount is stored here now. The caves are limestone and the limestone was used for the local buildings over the last thousand years.

The wines are varied, sparkling wine is excellent with rounded aromas and flavours of the underlying grapes and good value at Eur10 or less for the majority of the range.

Bouvet Ladubay tasting in the Loire Valley, France

Bouvet Ladubay line up in the Loire Valley, France