Glass of Bubbly
Champagne – C’est Magnifique!
For a special occasion, some would say, “It has to be Champagne”. There are many companies producing excellent Champagnes of superb quality and for me, it is a case of trying the various brands until the palate is satisfied and the sparkle brings life to a celebration or special event. Some of the Champagne brands…
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Maggie Henriquez – Queen of Champagne
So how many chances in life, do you get to interview an icon of an industry? Well, I can say I have been lucky enough, and blessed, to have done many interviews with some industry icons for my radio show. Racing icon, Mario Andretti, multiple Grammy award-winning music icons, Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics, Drummer…
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A Sparkling Soirée
Champagne makes a historic reappearance in the heritage gardens of Udaipur’s royal City Palace and headlines its unique French soirée in India. French wine and gastronomy has long ruled the world. Today, Atout France, the French tourism development agency, is finding new and unique ways to promote these around the world, one being the annual…
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Vintage Champagne
Vintage – an ordinary word which can somehow lift the spirits or confound and confuse. When used in terms of fashion it can quite throw me. I get it that a handbag my grandma might have used can be described as vintage, but surely not the pale green cotton flares I was wearing what seems…
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Consider Cava
In the ancestry of sparkling wine; let’s consider Cava, Champagne’s distant cousin. Cava is made by the traditional method, the same as Champagne and spends at least nine months on its lees. Most Cava is non-vintage with lower acidity than Champagne. The Spanish grapes used to make Cava are Macabeu, Xarel-lo, and Parellada for the…
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Planning your Visit to Champagne
There’s something special about a trip to Champagne and if you’re planning a visit then you need to check out Champagne-Booking who just adore Champagne and want to share their passion for Champagne and the beautiful surroundings of the Champagne region of France with the whole wide world! Famous, of course for its sparkling wine, which…
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There’s more than one way to Fizz a Wine!
French Ancestral Method is alive and well in Spain. Contrary to popular belief, Dom Pérignon did not invent sparkling wine. Adding sugar to a bottle of still wine, thus provoking a second fermentation, was in fact first performed by an Englishman, Mon Dieu! Indeed Christopher Merret’s experiment occurred some years before the much vaunted Dom…
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Barack Obama Celebrates Visit to Milan with Ferrari Trentodoc’s Bubbles
“Really Delicious!” said Barack Obama about the Ferrari Trentodoc served during the gala dinner hosted on May 8th in Milan by the Obama Foundation, in the glamorous rooms of Palazzo Clerici. The former US president set the stage of its first public appearance abroad after the end of his term in Milan, welcoming the invitation…
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2017 International Alsace Varietals Festival featuring Crémant d’Alsace
Planet Grape Wine Review presented recently during the sold out Educational Session at the 2017 International Alsace Varietals Festival, held at the Mendocino Fairgrounds in Boonville amidst the rolling hills and meadows of California’s Anderson Valley. Dr. Liz Thach MW and Fred Swan Diploma WSET joined me for a lively panel presentation of the sparkling wines of…
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