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Champagne Dérouillat
Champagne Dérouillat has vineyards in the Côte des Blancs and the Vallée de la Marne where it has a strong environmental approach in producing their Champagnes. The family-owned house was founded in 1929. Today, it combines the best of tradition (traditional press) and eco-friendly modern technology (stainless tanks; disgorgement with ice) to obtain the best…
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Champagne Gaudinat-Boivin
With vineyards covering just 6 hectares in the communes of Festigny, Leuvrigny and Oueilly which constitutes 4.3 hectares of Pinot Meunier, 1.10 hectares of Chardonnay and 0.60 hectares of Pinot Noir, this small House produces some beautiful cuvées. Run by Hervé and David Gaudinat, the vines are typically over 35 years old, with some over…
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Piper-Heidsieck Rare Millésimé 2002
A prestigious, classical prestige cuvee from 2002 vintage – structured, full-bodied and bursting with fruit. Elaborated with a majority of Chardonnays from the Montagne de Reims region (70%) and complemented with Pinot Noir (30%) from the same region, this wine is a blend of 17 crus which matured for over seven years in the House’s…
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Mrs Wigley Moscato
“Wirra Wirra” is an aboriginal name meaning “amongst the gum trees”. Wirra Wirra Vineyards was originally established in 1894 by known South Australian eccentric and cricketer Robert Strangways Wigley. Mrs Wigley was not the wife of Wirra Wirra founder Bob Wigley, but a particular pussycat who was born at the neighbouring Petrucci residence. within days…
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Wearing Memories designer Kiron Barui
Kiron Barui Kiron has been a Champagne lover for many years and started to collect caps from the bottles she enjoyed with family and friends, writing on the back the date and place thus creating a unique and special memory. It took two years for Kiron and her jeweler to perfect a beautiful ring that…
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Désirée: Compares Ancestral Dioise Method & Traditional Method
Désirée compares the Ancestral Dioise Method and the Traditional Method of winemaking. Ancestral Dioise Method CLAIRETTE DE DIE GRAPE VARIETY White Muscat with small grains (75 to 100%). Clairette variety (25 % maximum). COLLECT OF GRAPES Grape harvest by hand, Treading of grapes. PRESSING Discontinuous horizontal wine presses.Selection of juices pressed. FILTR ATION OF JUICES…
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Bacchantes Sparkling Wines
Bacchantes is specialized in rare and exceptional gourmets wines, of the Rhône Valley. The main range is constituted around Die’s Sparkling white wine : a sweet and confidential grappe variety. A long selection was made to take the best of this naming, in adequacy with young wine growers of Die, around a trendy and luxurious…
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London’s largest bottle of Champagne arrives in the City
Champagne-lovers are in for a treat with London’s largest bottle of bubbly taking pride of place at St Pancras International this month to mark the start of Searcys National Champagne Week (6th – 12th October). Weighing in at around 100 pounds and measuring more than 4ft tall, the enormous 30-litre bottle is also known as…
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Jenkyn Place looks forward to a bumper harvest this year
Hampshire-based sparkling wine producer, Jenkyn Place is expecting a bumper harvest this year with the vines flourishing and grapes in top condition. Owner, Simon Bladon, says, “We are really excited about the 2014 harvest which looks set to be our biggest and best to date – we’re expecting between 80 and 100 tonnes of grapes.…
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