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Is it because of the current spittoon emphasis on the bubbly-stuff that champagne news stories abound? Take the fascinating snippet that the Beckhams spent £20,000 on a bottle of champagne. The report fails to mention which brand but the bottle came with dimmed lights and sparklers. Classy.

If you fancy your own personal Champagne Taittinger is up for sale. Going back a bit - but it has only just shown up in my aggregator - Monty Don at the Observer reports that "I really liked Tom Stuart-Smith's Laurent Perrier garden, despite the giant urns." Shame. I rather enjoy an urn or two, admittedly not in my Champagne flute, they don't leave much room for the wine.

Out to the provinces where Chav Drinkers turn city into Champagne Capital (more class down Birmingham way) but Glasgow claims the crown in Scotland as the only city north of the border to make Tesco's Top 10 list, based on the number of bottles sold across the company. And I thought the drink of choice up there was Buckfast.

Perhaps they mix the two; a new cocktail perhaps for Charlotte. Another fascinating revelation reveals she DOES NOT LIKE CHAMPAGNE. Shocking. Ten double vodkas and a Cheeky Vimto (double port and a bottle of WKD Blue in the same glass) are her drinks of choice despite the innumerable free bottles of bubbly that flow her way. She also disclosed that she likes to go out on the town with her mother, Maria, and her aunt because they, too, are "party animals".