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How to Choose Wine Storage
Wine storage seems to be the must-have feature for the home right now, whether in the form of racking, wine cabinets or more permanent options like cellars and wine rooms. But aside from being the latest trend for the home, wine storage plays a vital role in keeping wine at its best. Here, Spiral Cellars…
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Spiral Cellars
Spiral Cellars is the established expert in wine storage for the home, specialising in unique premium wine cellars and bespoke wine rooms. With a range of outstanding options for its discerning clients across the UK and further afield Spiral Cellars has, for more than 30 years, been leading the way in offering luxurious large-capacity wine…
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Making my own Bottle of English Sparkling Wine!
OK, I exaggerate slightly, the truth is that I did the last stages of making a bottle of fizz, but if I had called this post “Finishing a bottle of English sparkling wine”, you would have thought that I had just drunk a whole bottle, which wouldn’t have been that much to shout about… It all started on a…
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It’s not marketing hype! The glass REALLY does make a difference
If you’re like me then you’ve probably not given too much thought as to why there are different styles of wine glasses. If pressed, then I’d say that a Champagne flute is the style it is because it feels elegant and it shows off the bubbles nicely. A white wine glass is shaped like it…
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Chanoine Freres Blanc de Noirs
Blanc de Noirs The skins of each grape of pinot noir and of pinot meunier ( two of the traditional Champagne varieties) take on a good deal of colour when harvesting time draws near. To obtain a great ‘Blanc de Noirs’ Champagne, we have to press a ‘white’ grape juice from a ‘black’ grape, which…
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Chanoine Freres Cuvée Rosé
Cuvée Rosé This magnificent bottle has a pale ruby hue. The nose, subtle and fine, reveals aromas of wild strawberries and of other fine red fruits. The palate confirms an elegance and length of flavour. Some hints of flowers bestow an added complexity to the blend. 35% Pinot Noir 10% Pinot Meunier 55% Chardonnay www.champagnechanoine.com
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Chanoine Freres Brut Tradition
Brut Tradition Carefully blended from the three traditional Champagne varieties ( Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay), this great Champagne has evolved over many months of quiet maturation in our cool cellars. On the nose appears a toastiness, followed by hazelnuts and then a touch of citrus fruit to bring the whole into a delicate…
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Laurent-Perrier Grand Siècle
Laurent-Perrier can offer a Champagne for every occasion, a wine for every form of enjoyment. Careful selection of grapes, full attention to all stages of the winemaking process, and ageing of each wine according to its needs, are the requisites for the development of the individual character of each and every wine. To produce Laurent-Perrier’s luxury cuvée,…
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Laurent-Perrier Alexandra Rosé 2004
Bernard de Nonancourt took the opportunity of his elder daughter Alexandra’s marriage in 1987 to create this vintage rosé Champagne, which expresses the very highest standards of the House. Laurent-Perrier, which also produces the benchmark non-vintage rosé champagne, was destined to produce a luxury cuvée rosé, an exclusive and rare wine which occupies a unique niche in its…
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