Christopher Walkey
Champagne Infinite Eight – Butterfly Lovers Edition
For many products packaging is just as important and sometimes even more important to that of the product it contains, clever branding helps to drive sales and increases consumer awareness. In the wine industry this fact increases as many people, just like choosing a book in the library, are tempted by the packaging / label…
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Graf Hardegg with Hard Boiled Egg
The Graf Hardegg label really caught my eye when the entries came in for The World’s Finest Glass of Bubbly Awards 2018 – I immediately said to myself, I need to pair this sparkling wine from Austria with some kind of dish combining the odd hard boiled egg or two. Firstly, the winery, holding a…
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Villa Sandi Nero
As a great fan of the Prosecco range that Villa Sandi produces I could not but help be drawn to a new looking bottle on their stand during the 2019 UK Sommelier Awards in Piccadilly, London. Villa Sandi have their own unique and patented shaped bottle for much of their Prosecco range, from standard DOC…
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What is a Pétillant Naturel (Pét-Nat) sparkling wine?
This is certainly a growing trend in the wine industry and especially during my sparkling wine tasting endeavours recently, the amount of Pétillant Naturel (Pét-Nat) wines I am seeing and also hearing being spoken off shows there is a building trend, maybe even a modern trend in this style of wine. I recently reviewed the…
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Champagne Cocktail: The Gin Fizz Royale
Simple cocktails can sometimes be most rewarding in flavours and when samples of Pothecary Gin were sent to our offices then for sure we needed to set about making and tasting some Champagne cocktails! Martin Jennings, Artisan Distiller & Co-founder of Pothecary Gin, suggested to take a look at the ‘Gin Fizz Royale‘: Pothecary Gin…
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All that glitters might just be gold with Adéle Cuvée
We see more and more sparkling wine bottles designed with tiny crystals added for decoration, some of these may be a lot less complicated than others – There are now many smaller companies that offer the service to decorate bottles especially for you, send them your Dom Perignon vintage magnum and within a couple of…
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What is the difference between Champagne and other Sparkling Wines?
When it comes to bubbles in your wine then the name which stands out most for many would undoubtedly be Champagne. Though world famous and drunk by millions globally every day, Champagne is a very exclusive style of wine that is only produced from a classified region of France totalling just 34,000 or so hectares.…
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Prosecco and Pasta
It’s an easy combination, not much in preparation time and neither in costs, simple and easy to do that we can all do this pairing at home without thinking – It’s Prosecco and pasta. Pasta, dating back to 1271, if the discovery in the XIII Century by Marco Polo is to be believed, which then…
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An English Sparkling Wine list to admire at Ockenden Manor
As soon as you enter the luxury country spa hotel in Sussex, Ockenden Manor, you will receive that re-assuring warm greeting from the staff, the smell from a roaring log fire burning away in the reception area and you soon start feeling the relaxing ambience soothing your mind and body… You have found a place…
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