Everyone knows the beer. Belgium also quietly makes genuinely good cool-climate wine, and has done for long enough now to have its own appellations.

Vines growing in the sandy soil of an active volcano turn out to be one of the rare European survivors of the pest that wiped out almost everyone else.

Same chalk, same grapes, same method as Champagne — just a few hundred miles north, and only ripening properly since the climate warmed up.