Oliver Walkey
What Herbs To Use In Your Cocktail?
There are millions of possible combinations of different ingredients, flavours and liquids you could find in a Cocktail, something as simple as modifying the amount of alcohol you use can change the flavours. You can dedicate your whole life to the Cocktail world and still never experience it all. I could go on forever with…
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A Complete Guide To James Bond’s Champagne Moments
The name’s Bond, James Bond Other than the way he says his name, Martini, Shaken, not Stirred might just be Bond’s second most famous line, but despite the Martini being Bond’s signature drink, he drinks more Champagne than Martini. Bond Fact – Did you know that a real Martini is not really meant to be…
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If The World Was Ending, What Would You Drink?
You’ve been gifted the knowledge of advanced notice, we have just one hour left, whatever the world-ending event is, you have time to pour yourself one last drink to toast the world goodbye, what would you drink? Considering you decided on some form of Sparkling Wine, then you have landed in the right place, it’s time…
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Sparkling Wine and Black Forest Gâteau
The famous and delicious Black Forest Gâteau that originated in Germany, will today be paired with a well-known German Sparkling Wine. The Black Forest Gâteau is a popular German dessert, in Germany, it is called Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte which translates to ‘Black Forest Cherry Gateau’. It is a chocolate sponge cake with a cherry filling and…
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Pastries and Champagne
To honor a very worthy Trophy Winner, we’ve created a heavenly pairing of pastries including Croissants, Pain au Chocolats, Cinnamon Swirls, Vanilla Crowns and Raspberry Danish to pair with Champagne Roger-Constant Lemaire – Cuvée Trianon which won the Trophy in the Pastries Delight Category. Pastries Delight A wine showing a yeasty, brioche, nutty character. I’m…
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What Sparkling Wine To Pair With Swedish Meatballs?
One of the most popular Swedish dishes to enjoy is the Svenska Köttbullar, otherwise known as Swedish Meatballs, but what makes these Meatballs Swedish? The typical Meatball that comes to mind to most people is the Italian Meatballs in a tomato and herb sauce, Swedish Meatballs are typically smaller, made with a 50-50 ratio of…
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What Champagne Was Served On The Titanic?
The most famous ship ever to set sail on our oceans left Southampton, UK on the 10th of April 1912 at 12 PM with 2,208 people passengers & crew, it docked in Cherbourg, France at 6:30 PM picking up 281 passengers & dropped off 24 and then left the same day at 8:10 PM and…
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Herbal Gardens Sparkling Wine
Welcome to the new Glass of Bubbly Category of Herbal Gardens. This new category was introduced to highlight the fantastic Sparkling Wines that display a Herbal/Naturous Character, it was added to our collection of Categories in 2021 with Weingut Steininger’s Sauvignon Blanc Reserve Sekt 2017 from Austria taking home the first Herbal Gardens Trophy. We…
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Movia – Become The Winemaker
The Sparkling Wine which Movia produces is slightly different compared to most, on some of their bottles, they leave the final stage of the wine production to you. You get to experience a part of making Sparkling Wine by disgorging the bottle, in essence becoming the Winemaker for a short moment. Movia believes that the…
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