Bursting Bubbles | Robert Walters

Bursting Bubbles, based on a series of articles published in The World of Fine Wine, is a ground-breaking new book that offers the reader an alternate history of Champagne and its greatest growers.

Often controversial, it is a no-holds barred look at the worlds most famous wine region and the sparkling wine that it produces. It has the potential to change the way wine lovers think about Champagne.

In his foreword, multi award winning author Andrew Jefford has called Bursting Bubbles, The most engaging book about leading Champagne growers Ive read, full of insight and detail and the most refreshing, pretension-pricking, myth-busting and amusingly unfrothy book on the subject.

Sparkling wine was not invented in Champagne Winemakers in the region considered bubbles a fault at the time Most of the myths around Pérignon began about a century after his death.

The author:
Robert Walters is a wine merchant and vineyard owner with over 25 years of experience in the wine trade. His obsessive search for great grower wines has led him to work closely with many important producers in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, as well as many of Champagnes finest artisans.
Over the years he has also found the time to write for publications such as The World of Fine Wine, and it was a series of these articles on grower Champagnes that eventually led to this book.

Winner of the Fortnum & Mason Debut Drink Book Award and the Gourmand Award: Best in the World.
Runner up in the Louis Roederer International Wine Book of the Year 2018 and André Simon Best drinks book of the year awards

The rise and rise of a group of artisanal producers in Champagne over the last twenty years has challenged everything we thought we knew about this famous region.
In Bursting Bubbles, Robert Walters takes us on a journey to visit these great growers.
Along the way, he reveals a secret history of Champagne and dispels many of the myths that still persist about this celebrated wine style.
Controversial and ground breaking, Bursting Bubbles will change the way you think about Champagne.

"... This is part history lesson, part travel adventure story and wholly entertaining to read. It reminds me of Kermit Lynchs Adventures On The Wine Route with an Australian." The Wine Depository

"Bursting Bubbles by Robert Walters is the most provocative wine book Ive read in a while." - Henry Jeffreys, taken from his article in The Guardian, 'The best books on drink of 2017'