Christopher Walkey
Can Music Influence your Champagne Tasting Experience?
Music is said to hold magical healing powers for both the mind and the body. From soothing stress levels to being seen as hugely beneficial for people living with dementia (Alzheimer’s Wiltshire). There is a lot more to music than simply tuning in to find out who leads the charts this week. “New Orleans, October…
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The Champagne for every Restaurateurs’ Wine List
One of the many delights when visiting a restaurant is taking a peek at the wine list. The size and content will vary tremendously from the style of restaurant, such as fast food outlets to Michelin star, to the style of cuisine on offer from Sushi to traditional French cuisine that will all have persuasion…
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Can a Wine Change Character in your Glass?
Now, this is such a very big topic and open to many discussions and points of view. So for this article I am going to write from my personal point of view having tasted many thousands of wines and experiencing wines that have given me a host of difference experiences. I have tasted wines that…
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What is Rosé de Saignée Champagne?
Champagne is high up on the list for many wine lovers though when we see pink Champagne then it usually takes things up to another level for us. There is something that is just that little bit more exciting, romantic, sensual and usually expensive too when it comes to rosé / pink Champagne. “When people…
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Le Biscuit Rose de Reims and Champagne
If we delve outside of wine and Champagne, Reims has a very special edible product that it is world famous for and this is a unique pink coloured biscuit with a sprinkling of powered sugar on top – Biscuits Rose de Reims (pink biscuit of Reims). Many will also know this as the Champagne biscuit.…
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World’s Finest 2020 – Champagne Roger Constant Lemaire Trianon 1966
Located in a tiny Champagne village west side of Epernay, 51700 Villers-sous-Châtillon, and a mere 295 mile drive from central London (Westminster). A passionate family producer, what we call in the wine industry ‘a grower Champagne’, Roger Constant Lemaire is the house which took home the prestigious title of being The World’s Finest Glass of…
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10 Frequently Asked Questions about Champagne
Did you know that approximately 300 million bottles of Champagne are sold each year with a sales value of around 5 billion euros. For sure the Champagne industry is a big one and it is a known wine to many households across the world. From iconic movies and celebrities to celebrations at sporting events, Champagne…
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Sparkling Wine made from Fukumoto Oranges
Wines are made from grapes right? Most of us will consider this the basic fact when it comes to wine making and wine drinking, the main ingredient is one or more of many hundreds of varieties of grapes produced around the world. “There are many thousands of grape varieties out there though those which are…
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International Wine Professionals announce the 2020 Glass of Bubbly Trophies
As we approach November we are still very much reminded what a difficult year it has been already in 2020 and for many those dark clouds still very much are hanging over us. The wine sector along with the hospitality sector and many business sectors connected have been hit not only with natural disasters from…
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