Champagne News
How Traditional Method Sparkling Wine Is Made
Traditional Method, sometimes referred to as the Méthode Champenoise, is famously used to create Champagne in the Champagne region of France, but it isn’t exclusively used there. You don’t have to be in Champagne to use the Traditional Method, as Sparkling Wines in France, outside the Champagne region use this method, even Spain uses this…
An Easy Guide For Tasting Champagne
Whether you are tasting Champagne or Sparkling Wine, you do it the same way. In this article I focus on Champagne, to help pick out the aromas and flavours in your glass. It is easy to get the technique down, it just takes time to be able to identify the aromas and flavours, the more…
A Sparkling Wine For Every Season
Every season brings a new atmosphere, with one making you want to spend as much time outside soaking in the sun, with an ice lolly in hand, where another will make you want to snuggle up indoors next to an open fire reading a good book with a glass of Sparkling Red Wine in hand,…
What is a Great Champagne for a First Date?
Picking the right Champagne or Sparkling Wine can be a bit tricky, that’s if you want to find the right one, it’ll be up to you when you want to pop the cork on your bottle of bubbly. Glass of Bubbly has made it easier to pick out the perfect bottle to enjoy on your…
My Desert Island Fizz: Michael Edwards
In a new series of online interviews, we take a look at well known wine professionals and with the idea of Desert Island Discs in mind we ask them to choose, instead of music, their three favourite sparkling wines to take with them if ever they find themselves ‘Robinson Crusoe’d‘ as such! Our series entitled ‘My…
7 Course Japanese Dinner ‘Champagne Duval-Leroy & ASDA Style’
A Champagne that I have many good memories of is Duval-Leroy. A house with a famous history and where adversity turned in to success that inspires many still today and who lit up the first movement towards woman making a true mark in the industry. Champagne Duval-Leroy “In this family history, Carol is the female…
If you can’t beat them… do something different
How some independent Champagne makers are finding success by challenging accepted wisdom. The usual version of this old saying is If you can’t beat them… join them. In Champagne that has traditionally meant looking for success by following the lead of the famous brands, but recently many small Champagne producers are finding that breaking some…
Grand Cru Champagne – More than meets the eye
When you’re looking at a row of Champagne bottles in a wine shop or working your way down the Champagne list in a restaurant looking for clues about which one to choose, the words ‘Grand Cru ‘stand out as a reassuring beacon in the darkness. If it says Grand Cru on the label, it must…
How to Drink More Champagne and Spend Less
(and ‘No’ that doesn’t involve drinking poor quality wine). If you’re reading this you’re probably someone who enjoys Champagne and would like to open Champagne more frequently and be more generous when you’re entertaining friends, family or colleagues, but let’s face it, Champagne is not the cheapest wine available and you might assume that drinking…