Oliver Walkey

Hungarian Wine

By Oliver Walkey / 25th October 2024

Hungry for Hungarian Wines, Wine has been produced in Hungary since the 13 or 14 centuries. The country is divided up into 22 wine regions, growing 223 varieties of grapes, on 65,000 hectares of vineyards and producing 400 million bottles of wine each year. The 22 regions of Hungary: Badacsony Balatonboglár Balaton-Felvidék Balatonfüred-Csopak Nagy-Somlói Zalai Csongrád…

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Clos De Tres Cantos – Interview With Maria Benitez Cantarero

By Oliver Walkey / 24th October 2024

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 Maria Benitez Cantarero from Clos De Tres…

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Georgian Wine

By Oliver Walkey / 23rd October 2024

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

By Oliver Walkey / 22nd October 2024

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

By Oliver Walkey / 21st October 2024

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

By Oliver Walkey / 18th October 2024

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

By Oliver Walkey / 18th October 2024

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

By Oliver Walkey / 17th October 2024

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

By Oliver Walkey / 16th October 2024

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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