Bernard Dugdale

Bernard Dugdale

What Do You Know About Champagne?

One of the things I’ve enjoyed, as I’ve researched into our new Champagne tour, is finding out that so many things that I knew about Champagne just aren’t true. So this blog is a bit of a ‘myth-buster’. You can…

A New Chain Gang Tour – Champagne Region

For 2020, we’re going to have a brand-new tour, of Champagne and its region. Reims Cathedral. The origins of this tour are quite complicated. Reims, with Epernay the twin capitals of the Champagne wine region, holds a very important place…

Brexit Here We Come!

I can’t really not mention it, can I? This isn’t a post devoted to how we should have voted Remain (David and Steve). More ‘whither The Chain Gang after Brexit?’ God knows, is the short answer. It’s January 2020, it…