INTERVIEW: Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger at his new Kent vineyard

May 03, 2017, 01:02 PM

The president of one of France’s longest-established Champagne families has broken ground on his first vineyard in Kent.

Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger has planted the first vines in the Domaine Evremond vineyard in Chilham, nearly 18 months after first signalling his intention to make English sparkling wine.