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Fine Fizz fit for Festive Fun
Over the last year or so I have done a lot of travelling and visiting many of the top sparkling wine regions of the world from exploring the family producers of Georgia to guided tours of the fabulous sparkling wines produced here on home soil. What sticks in my mind when it comes to sparkling…
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What Champagne is and Why It’s Difficult to Separate from our Dining Table
Vacation is hard to separate from “popping” cork! Bottles of wine and Champagne are always waiting to be opened at a festive party. No matter how popular these two drinks are, many people today are finding it difficult to distinguish the two drinks. Of course there’s always a simple answer like that Champagne is the…
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Avoiding these 10 common wine buying techniques:
Do not judge a wine by its cover. Yes, we all do it I know, be it that book we have chosen at the library or picking the biggest wrapped present from the lucky dip – we are all influenced by packaging. Try not to though be too allured by a wine label design, sometimes it never…
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Interview with Champagne-Booking.com
Glass of Bubbly interviewed Sonita Bachu, founder and owner of Champagne-Booking.com What makes Champagne, the area, so special? The various landscapes, friendly people and good honest food. The area has different regions in which different types of Champagnes are produced. Each region has its own distinct personalities. For example, the Côte des Bar produces a lot…
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Enjoy Sparkling Wine with Pasta
We all love pasta, (and those in the know love it al dente) but how many of us go further and check the quality of the product itself? If you know about wine, you’ll laugh at German Liebfraumilch – and if you know about food you’ll avoid popular brands of inferior pasta. In the wine…
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A visit to Champagne Boizel
Located on 46 Avenue de Champagne in Épernay, Champagne Boizel is label founded back in 1834 and producing approximately 500,000 bottles every year. This popular Champagne house produces three ranges of wines to chose from which are ‘The Essential‘, ‘The Exceptional‘ and ‘The Jewels‘. Each range is a carefully chosen selection of Champagne offering a bold…
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Bubbly in the Venetian Lagoon
Often Americans used to end the week by exclaiming: T.G.I.F. Thank God it’s Friday. Let me rephrase this with a slightly poetic shift by saying: T.G.I.S. Thank God it’s Summer! There is no intention to underestimate the other seasons, each one unique in its own way, but summer is the season, the season to celebrate…
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Getting Fizzical at ASDA
Currently, a search on the ASDA website for Champagne and Sparkling Wines brings 51 unique results from English Sparkling to Cava, Champagne to Prosecco so all in all, not a bad performance for what many will see as our nation’s budget supermarket chain! Their choice of sparkling wines is varied, though has a core of…
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Greyfriars Vineyard Opens Chalk Wine Cave
Greyfriars’ new chalk wine cave on the North Downs in Surrey has been opened. The 18-month excavation and build project created a wine cave that has been carved out of the side of the Hog’s Back near Guildford. The resulting 3,500 square foot cellar will store up to 250,000 bottles of Greyfriars’ award-winning wines. A…
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