Sparkling Wine News
Domaines Paul Mas
Nestled in the Coteaux de Languedoc AOC between Pézenas and Sète on the Mediterranean coastline, Château de Conas has been in the Mas family home for over one thousand years. Fourth-generation vintner, Jean-Claude Mas took over the helm in 2000 and his mission has been to use only premium quality grapes to craft superior wines…
Chapel Down Launches Most Expensive English Sparkling Wine
Chapel Down has launched a Coeur de Cuvée English sparkling wine at a cost of £99.99, making it the most expensive English wine on sale at the moment. Named Kit’s Coty Coeur de Cuvée 2013, the wine is produced from the best areas of Chardonnay in Chapel Down’s 98-hectare vineyard on the North Downs of…
Water is the Critical Ingredient to Wine & Champagne
Ask any wine connoisseur what goes into making a truly great wine or champagne and you will invite an in-depth debate of the pros and cons of different grapes, processing and crushing practices and numerous other factors. But few will think to mention the most important ingredient of all. Your average wine has a water content of…
Waitrose Starts Exporting English Wine To China
Waitrose has become the first supermarket to start exporting English wine to China. As part of the supermarket’s support of the English wine industry, four English sparkling wines will be sold through the Royal Mail store on Tmall, the huge Chinese online marketplace operated by Alibaba Group, from 12 April. With over 100 wines available…
David & Goliath – Can English Sparkling Wine take on the might of Champagne?
English Sparkling Wine has experienced something of a meteoric rise over the past few years. Peter Ustinov’s phrase “I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine” would have had little argument even in the very recent past, with English wine being the parochial and somewhat comical poor cousin of the fizz…
Interview with Pedro F. Rosell The Grand Seigneur of Argentine Sparkling Wine
Pedro F. Rosell is interviewed by Michael Walz. ‘Don Pedro’, how he is respectfully called by the people around him, is Head Winemaker, Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Cruzat, a winery that focuses entirely on making sparkling wine according to the Methóde Champenoise. Trained in Mendoza and Bordeaux, Pedro has significantly contributed to the sparkling wine…
Bubbles of Colour
Time to open up the bubbly and let the spectrum in. There are old stories of Champagne in rainbow colours. Not that any was ever so bottled, just served that way. How did they manage it? By putting a bit of coloured stuff in the glass of course. The tales date from the Naughties of…
Popping the Brit Fizz: Christopher Walkey interviews Nusrat Ghani MP (Member of Parliament)
A glass of bubbly is becoming more and more the choice of many when it comes to enjoying wine these days and what a splendid choice we now have from nearly each and every corner of the globe from Austrian to Argentinian, South African to Indian. I think many in the wine industry would say…
Warner Leisure Hotels Introduce Prosecco Taps
For a limited time only the Warner Leisure Hotel site is serving Prosecco in its en suite bathrooms through special pressurised taps. Guests at one of North Wales’ most popular hotels, Bodelwyddan Castle are in for a treat after a request from a customer was taken literally. The most exclusive rooms have been upgraded from the…