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Champagne AR Lenoble Christmas Packaging
Champagne AR Lenoble and their agent Flint Wines have made special holiday gift packaging available to UK retailers for this Christmas. Featuring an attractive design with an abstract bottle motif also suggestive of a Christmas tree, and with the AR Lenoble name emblazoned on the sides, these special edition festive gift boxes will really make…
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Sparkling Wine in a Can
More Wine has added the only can of wine in the UK, ‘Quello’ to its growing online portfolio. Quello is a naturally fermented sparkling white wine in a slim 200ml aluminum can. This format is lighter and more portable than glass, chills faster, plus is easy to crush and dispose of when empty. Quello is made…
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Interview with Lorenzo Palla on Using Only Indigenous Yeasts
Lorenzo Palla, the visionary producer of Asolo Prosecco DOCG, talks about his idea of using only indigenous yeasts, and how he came to this decision. How did you get the idea of using indigenous yeasts? “The project, aimed at improving perception of our wine, took off over 5 years ago when, supported by a cutting-edge…
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London Restaurant Giving Away 1,000 Bowls of Free Pasta & Prosecco
A London restaurant is giving away 1,000 bowls of free pasta with a glass of Prosecco next Friday. Pasta Remoli are moving their flagship restaurant in London’s Westfield Stratford City to a brand new location, so to celebrate they are giving away 1,000 plates of pasta on Friday 18 November with a glass of Prosecco. If…
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Champagne Lanson Gift Box for the Festive Season
Champagne Lanson has released its latest gift box in time for the festive season. Available in all major retail outlets, the design is intended to look like a present which has been wrapped with ribbon, the gift box is the perfect box solution. Featuring the ‘Lanson Cross’ at the heart of the design to highlight…
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Champagne Charles Heidsieck Releasing Limited Edition Jeroboam
For the first time in its 165-year history, Champagne Charles Heidsieck is releasing a Jeroboam of its much-celebrated flagship wine, the Brut Reserve NV. This gargantuan format, containing the equivalent of four standard bottles, epitomizes the maverick spirit of the house’s founder, better known as ‘Champagne Charlie’ thanks to his exploits travelling the world in…
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Win a Bottle of Vintage 2008 RCL Champagne for Christmas (NOW CLOSED)
Millésime Les Hautes Priéres Vintage 2008 is a Blanc de Blancs Champagne aged for 9 months in oak barrels and matured in the cellars. This Champagne has been made from their best vineyards in Hautvillers. www.rclchampagne.co.uk To Enter: Follow @glassofbubbly and @rclemaireuk on Twitter, then tweet us ‘I’d like to win a bottle of Vintage RCL Champagne’ or…
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Condé Nast Johansens Announce Winners of Champagne Taittinger UK Wine List Awards 2017
Condé Nast Johansens announced the winners of the Champagne Taittinger UK Wine List Awards 2017. The joint overall winners were Chewton Glen Hotel & Spa and Park House restaurant in Cardiff. Lynn Murray commented – ‘It is not often the judges debate and debate and are unable to come to a conclusive winner and only…
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Steven Spurrier of Bride Valley Vineyard
The first time I saw Steven Spurrier was at the Swiss Ambassador’s stylish residence, proposing a toast for Circle of Wine Writers Christmas Party in December 2013 when I was a Diploma student. I have often seen him at Tasting Events since then but I always hesitated to talk to him as he was somehow…
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