A little bit of something you fancy
‘‘Between the crisis and the catastrophe, there is always time for a glass of champagne.” These, according to Antoine Roland-Billecart of the Billecart-Salmon Champagne house, are the words of a long-dead French poet. However, they could just as easily be attributed to many a dispirited Gun as they approach the elevenses table after a bad morning on the peg.
As we all know, drinks, in moderation of course, are an essential part of any driven shooting day. Not because we need them to have a good time, not because they’re a highlight of the day, but because they’re the things we bond over, tease each other over, cram in a pheasant-goujon-laden hand while we try to fend off a hungry labrador. Drinks are an ornament, the stained-glass windows in the cathedral of a good day’s shooting, and it follows that if the drinks are great, the shoot day will
