Sparkling Wine News
Discover Pét-Nat Sparkling Wine
Pétillant Naturel, which is more commonly shortened to Pét-Nat, means in English ‘Naturally Sparkling’ or in the wine production world it is referred to as ‘methode ancestrale‘, it entails leaving the sediment (yeast) in the bottle, rather than disgorging it (removing), it may seem weird buying a bottle of Sparkling Wine which still has sediment…
New Zealand Sparkling Wine – How To Be No.1
Welcome to the country next to the one down under, part of the biggest empire to span across the globe, home to the Kiwi bird and some amazing Sparkling Wine. New Zealand is a fascinating country that is worth learning a bit about, especially its marvelous wine region. The first vineyard in New Zealand was…
How Influenced are you by the Wine Label?
How frequent is it that we have chosen something based on what’s on the outside over what’s inside? From that book at the library with an interesting cover we happen to pick up to cosmetics, items which we are unfamiliar with and yet about to purchase for the first time, we tend to be attracted…
Spring Fling in Prosecco
Spring is in the air, the flowers are blossoming, the bees are buzzing, the butterflies are flying and the days are getting warmer, it’s the perfect time for your to pop open a bottle of Award Winning Spring Fling Sparkling Wine. Depending on which you follow spring either started on the 1st of March according…
Llopart Nèctar Terrenal renews its image
Llopart Nèctar Terrenal renews its image by emphasizing the iconic image of the wine angel, by the painter Ginés Liébana. The artist granted the Llopart family with one of his well-known paintings, a family with whom he has always maintained a close relationship and the work ended up becoming the label for this sparkling wine….
The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Prosecco
The Hills have stopped singing for a moment and now all you can hear is Prosecco, the harvesting of the grapes, the crushing, fermentation, bottling, popping, serving and drinking of this marvelous creation brought to the world by the Italian people. While enjoying a glass of Prosecco, delivering pleasure to your aroma and palate, I…
Discover the Lanzarote Wine Region
Many Myths were spoken about the Canary Islands, the original inhabitants (The Guanches) believed the volcanic mountains to be the home of their Gods, while early scholars believed the area to be the highest mountains of the Lost City of Atlantis. The beautiful island of Lanzarote is known for its year-round warm weather volcanic landscape,…
Discover the Pfalz Wine Region
A Wine Region containing the World’s Largest Wine Barrel and the World’s Oldest Bottle of Wine, read on to learn more about this fascinating region. Pfalz covers 23,554 hectares (58,178 acres) of vineyards in Germany, it runs from the south of the German city, worms to the French border of Alsace, incorporating the Rhine plain,…
Champagne / Sparkling Wine Books
There will not be many wine enthusiasts who will not at least own a wine book or two and in most cases a small library. I myself have around 40 books on wine from many different eras and by different authors, I often refer to them when seeking out some finer details on wine regions…