How far would you go for a taste suprême?

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It was like water off a duck’s back, for ‘ooh ahh’ Cantona was smeared in Michelin-star quality duck fat courtesy of that other lovable French-English celebrity, chef Michel Roux Jnr. open image in gallery But while Cantona might have been swimming lengths rather than going to the extreme length of swimming all 21 miles in the choppy, cold waters of the Channel, he still had to spend several hours in the water; in the drink to prove his point about a drink. Today – more than 350 years later – Kronenbourg 1664 is the number one French beer in the world. So that is why Cantona was saluting us Brits for recognising Kronenbourg 1664 as the most suprême tasting beer in the world – in an inimitable way that only he could pull off with such aplomb.