Oliver Walkey
Georgian Wine
Georgia is a very important country when it comes to Wine history, it is currently considered to be the Birthplace of Wine, or to some people the ‘Cradle of Wine’. It was originally thought to date back to 6,000 BC with the people of South Caucasus, but our history books have since been updated to…
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Eudald Massana – Interview With Oriol Massana
The love of sparkling wine is infinite, a language that everyone can understand, a sparkle that can shine in anyone’s glass, it can connect people, brings them together and places a smile on faces around the world. In this exclusive feature on Glass of Bubbly, we speak with Oriol Massana, one of the family and…
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Austrian Wine
The first evidence of Wine in Austria dates back to 700 BC, to the times of the Celts and Romans. The very famous Grüner Veltliner grape, which today is the most planted grape variety in Austria, was created in the 10th century. Austria has more than 2,400 wineries within 65 wine regions. The most popular…
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Paul Mas
Jean-Claude Mas’s great-grandfather, Auguste Mas, was the man who bought the family vineyard in 1892, he acquired 9 ha (22 acres) of vines in the Mas de Bicq, near the village of St Pons de Mauschiens (close to Montagnac). Then in 1934, Raymond Mas grew the family vineyard to a surface of 15 ha in…
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Switzerland Wine
Viticulture and Winemaking is an age-old tradition in the country of Switzerland, dating back before the Roman Empire, to 800 BC, during a time when the Celtics lived in Switzerland. Inside a Celtic Tomb of a lady from the 2nd century BC near Sembrancher, a ceramic bottle was discovered with an inscription that many professionals…
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Interview With Emilien Boutillat – Chief Winemaker at Piper-Heidsieck
The love of Champagne is infinite, a language that everyone can understand, a sparkle that can shine in anyone’s glass, it can connect people, brings them together and places a smile on faces around the world. In this exclusive feature on Glass of Bubbly, we speak with Emilien Boutillat, the Chief Winemaker at Champagne Piper-Heidsieck,…
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Mexican Wine
The history of Mexican Wine started with the Spanish in the 16th century, they brought with them vines from Europe and knowledge of Winemaking. Mexico was a country that did have its own indigenous grapes growing before the Spanish, but there is no evidence that anyone used them to create Wine. Mexican Wine took a…
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Giró del Gorner – Interview With Marta Giró i Via
One of the biggest regions in the world of sparkling wine, Cava stands as its own style of bubbly, from the historic country of Spain, with so many brilliant producers utilising tradition and innovating for the future, there’s a lot to explore, so Glass of Bubbly is on a mission to highlight this wonderful region…
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Bolivian Wine
The first Grapevines were planted in Bolivia in the 1560s by Spanish missionaries, which were brought over on Spanish ships. The tropical environment in particular regions really tested some of the Grape varieties, but they found that the high-altitude plains in the Andean mountain served as a very fitting location for viticulture. The first bottle…
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