Sparkling Wine News
Benjamin Bridge partners up with Friarwood Fine Wines
Benjamin Bridge and Friarwood Fine Wines have announced that they have created a partnership in order to distribute Benjamin Bridge’s traditional method sparkling wines throughout the UK. The partnership follows the acquisition of French wine merchant Friarwood by Managing Director Benjamin Carfagnini in 2015. He has worked hard to expand the company’s wine list to…
Olly Smith Opens Bolney Estate Visitor Centre
Olly Smith officially opened the new visitors centre at Bolney Estate by sabering a bottle of Bolney Bubbly on the balcony! The event featured beautiful canapés from Four Gables, which included goats cheese mousse with chili jam and parmesan sable, charred beef kebabs with béarnaise sauce, salt and pepper calamari with Asian dipping sauce and…
Cirotto Launches Low-Sugar ‘Extra Brut’
This year, Cirotto launch ‘Extra Brut’, an exciting new style of Prosecco with a very low residual sugar, at only 3 grams/litre. It responds to increasing demands for low and zero sugar Champagnes, Cavas and Proceccos in Europe and the UK. Such varieties are particularly popular among those with preferences for a very dry taste,…
Dopff au Moulin Crémant d’Alsace
Dopff au Moulin can be considered one of the pinoeers of Alsatian wine having been first founded by the Dopff family in 1574. Julien Dopff was also first Alsatian winemaker to adapt the méthode champenoise after attending a demonstration during the Exposition Universelle in Paris. From there he began training in Épernay and selling his own…
Discover the Vivante Range of J.C. Le Roux
J.C. Le Roux, South Africa’s leading name in sparkling wine, has revitalised its entire range by embracing individuality and empowering you to release your own unique vibrancy. Re-energised with a crisp new look, a new moniker and uplifting strapline: “Release What’s Inside”, J.C. Le Roux is inspiring bubbly lovers to be their true selves. ‘In…
Roger Daltrey from The Who Dabbles in Bubbly for a Good Cause
In celebration of the sparkling history of the famous music group The Who, Roger Daltrey has gotten himself involved in some fine Champagne and all in a great cause with profits going to his co-founded charity Teen Cancer America. The vintage Champagne with a striking limited edition design (The Who’s bullseye logo) will cost £95 a…
A Bottle of Bubbly by Bicycle from Prosecco to London
A British cyclist, Mike Ramseyer, pictured with Mr Giancarlo Moretti Polegato, Villa Sandi Chairman, left Villa Sandi in Valdobbiane Italy with a bottle of Villa Sandi Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG strapped to his bicycle on July 9th. He is cycling 1.500 kms across Europe to get to London on July 19th . As Villa Sandi are exhibiting at…
How J.C. Le Roux Make Méthode Cap Classique
Only sparkling wine made in the Champagne region of France may be called Champagne. In South Africa a bottle fermented sparkling wine made according to the traditional French method is referred to as Méthode Cap Classique (MCC). J.C. Le Roux is South Africa’s leading name in sparkling wine. When it comes to sourcing the three noble…
Still not tried English Sparkling Wine?
We want to cheer on home-grown bubbly and we hope that the rest of the country continues to get behind the industry too. Sales are indeed growing, they are winning awards left and right and the quality is continuously increasing – so why not give it a try? The price may seem a little higher compared…