Oliver Walkey
Spring Fling Sparkling Wines
Spring is here and the flowers are blooming, it’s a great time to enjoy a glass of Sparkling Wine, especially one that won a Gold Medal in the Spring Fling category at The World’s Finest Glass of Bubbly Awards 2020. This year Spring started on Saturday the 20th of March and it will end on…
Read MoreA Hearty Dish & Slovenian Fizz
A healthy hearty meal with a vintage Slovenian Sparkling Wine is a pleasant way to spend an evening after a hard day of work either working on the vines, building a house or whatever it is that you do to earn a living. The sparkling wine I’m pairing with this dish is the Virus 7…
Read MoreHot Cross Bun Easter Cocktail
Hot Cross Buns, a delicious baked treat most commonly enjoyed around Easter along with the chocolate bunny and chocolate egg, this year Easter Sunday is on the 4th of April 2021. According to Wikipedia the first definite record of the Hot Cross Bun came about in 1733 from a London street cry: “Good Friday comes…
Read MoreAn Italian Fizz Cocktail
Campari and Italian Sparkling Wine, two very popular Italian drinks coming together to create a tasty cocktail. Italy is a divine country with a lot of heritage and tradition and when visiting another country it is important to embrace those traditions, for that is one of the reasons you are there, although not all of…
Read MoreSalmon & Prosciutto Salad & Fizz
A delicious salad and an enjoyable bottle of Sparkling Wine with a label I can’t stop looking at, what does it mean? Is there a meaning to it? Will the salad and Sparkling Wine pair well together? Read on to find out, Fink & Kotzian have an amazing story behind their label, it’s worth reading.…
Read MoreChickpea Salad & Fizz
Creating a salad during your lunch break may take a little longer, but if you make the right salad for yourself, the benefits are worth the little extra time or effort you put in. The Chickpea is one ingredient I wanted to incorporate in this salad, I wanted to see how it would taste with…
Read MoreAvocado & Prawn – A B.Brilliant Dinner Party Starter
Even though we’re not going out to fancy dinner parties at the moment, we can still create a special night-in every once in a while and creating something like this is a great starting dish to pair with some Sparkling Wine to start the evening off. During Ancient Roman times, the elite held their dinner…
Read MoreEgg Sandwich & English Fizz
Britan, Britain Britain, an island filled with people who have accomplished so much and every time I taste a new English Sparkling Wine I am reminded of the amazing wonders that we can create. Busi Jacobsohn is another English Sparkling Wine producer I can add to the great list of English Sparkling Winemakers, along with…
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