Food Pairings
Pairing Champagne with Traditional Chinese Cuisine
For many of us, we will be familiar with and certainly fans of well known Chinese dishes such as Peking duck, chicken chow mein, sweet and sour chicken and egg fried rice. Much of what we see in restaurants and takeaways will cater for what is described as westernised Chinese food, ie the cuisine that…
How To Make Fizz Fruit Skewers
If you are looking for a new and exciting party food, then this should definitely be a contender, a Fizz Fruit Skewer, easy to make and fun to eat. Sparkling Wine First and foremost, you need to pick a bottle of Sparkling Wine, I’ve gone for a bottle of Cantina Rotaliana R Trentodoc Extra Brut…
Champagne with Steak & Chips
The Champagne Based in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, France, Champagne Paul Launois is run by Julien Launois, an entrepreneurial winemaker. The winery operates on 6.5 hectares over 19 plots of vineyards. The company is currently named after Julien’s son, Paul Launois. Julien Launois also offers a very unique ‘Single Barrel’ opportunity, where you can buy your very…
Italy’s Finest – Spaghetti Bolognese & Cartizze
When you think of Italy’s signature dish, you either think of Pizza or Pasta, I’ve made a delicious and easy to make at home Spaghetti Bolognese and paired it with two Award Winning Cartizze’s from Italy. What is Cartizze? Cartizze is basically the Grand Cru of Prosecco, a Cartizze is still a Prosecco but it…
A Touch of Cornish
During my university years I used to live in Devon and next to the popular, and thanks to Fawlty Towers, now world famous English Riviera town of Torquay. Where my teenage years were spent was a bedroom sat just a few hundred metres away from the beaches in Paignton and nearly 200 miles west of…
Enjoy Low Alcohol Sparkling Wines This Christmas From Tesco
Christmas is very close by and you may not want to celebrate the day with a lot of alcohol, but you can still enjoy the fizzy taste with much lower alcohol content, less than 0.5% to be more precise. Tesco has two Low Alcohol Sparkling Wines from Spain to enjoy this Christmas and the crazy…
The best wine for your Turkey Dinner
To be honest, if you have a nice wine on your table, whatever the style and you are blessed to be enjoying a nice turkey dinner then what more can you ask for? Though, if we really want to take things that bit further and have time and a small budget to select a perfect…
Homemade Champagne & Prosecco Biscuits
These are great party foods and will delight both hungry and fizzy loving friends and family – Champagne & Prosecco homemade biscuits. If you have a splash or two of your bottle of bubbly to spare then why not get baking and serve up some easy to make biscuits in the shape of fizzy wine…
Celebrating Christmas The German Way
There are so many Christmas themed treats to enjoy this season, but have you ever tried any from Germany? Well it’s never been easier to try something new, so why not try Mini Cinnamon Spekulatius or Lebkuchen Hearts, you can pick up these treats from Tesco. But to enjoy some German treats, it’s only right…