Sparkling Wine News
Throw A Sparkling English Afternoon Tea
There’s nothing quite like a traditional afternoon tea: a deliciously varied spread of treats on offer from a beautifully laid cake stand. But what if we want to take this beloved English pastime up a sparkling notch? With such a variety of sandwiches, scones and cakes it can be difficult to know which wines to…
Investors Target English Sparkling Wine to Challenge Champagne
With the increasing success of the English and Welsh sparkling wine industry, investors are looking to help expand the wineries and challenge traditional French Champagne. The popularity of Champagne worldwide opens an obvious and large market for English bubbly that winemakers and investors are eager to join. Hedge-fund Exile Mark Driver is spending over 14 million…
Skinny Prosecco sells out in UK!
Following its recent partnership with Selfridges, Thomson & Scott Skinny Prosecco has completely sold out in the UK with a waiting list for new stock due the beginning of July. Thomson & Scott Skinny Prosecco is Selfridges’ biggest selling online wine with more than 600 bottles sold. Thomson & Scott Skinny Prosecco The Prosecco is…
New Cava de Paraje Calificada Designation Approved
A new designation Cava de Pareja has been officially approved by the Cava Regulatory Board under the Ministry of Agriculture. This is a new category that will allow Cavas produced with grapes from a place that determines how exceptional its climate and geological conditions are. The Regulatory Council will officially present the qualified Cavas on June 13…
Ca’del Bosco Cuvée Prestige Franciacorta
Cuvée Prestige Identity A virtue found in the etymology of an ancient word. From idem, or same, a set of homogenous characteristics that comprise an entity. Cuvée Prestige, the essence of Franciacorta in Ca’del Bosco style, a jewel created in 2007. The essence of love for wine and of thirty years’ experience gained day by…
How Ca’del Bosco Franciacorta is Made
Ca’del Bosco explains how they create their fantastic Franciacorta, from grape to bottle. The harvest The Ca’del Bosco harvest begins around August 20th with the grapes destined for the ‘base’ of Franciacorta, the Chardonnay, picked strictly by hand and collected into small crates holding about 15 to 17 kg each. Picking the base grapes for the…
Domaine Jean Bourdy Crémant du Jura
Jean-François Bourdy has been managing the historic Jura vineyards of Domaine Jean Bourdy since 1990. The history of this house, however, is amongst the longest commercial histories in any sector in any country: the Bourdy family became involved (through marriage) only in 1896, but Jean-François represents the 15th generation of family ownership stretching back to…
German Sparkling Wine from Weingut im Zwölberich
Hartmut Heintz took over the Zwölberich vineyards from his father Walter in 1985 and pushed the estate’s natural approach towards organic and then biodynamic certification. With just 80 acres (33 hectares) of the fertile Lower Nahe that had been producing wine since 1711, the estate’s renewed dedication to natural production seemed to fit with the…
New Sparkling Wine Glasses Designed by Sarah Chadwick
Sarah Chadwick is the artist behind a new range of glassware inspired by her surroundings and imagination. Manufactured by a pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, where there are ten different processes all by hand which the glasses go through before completion including the silk screen printing for a greater quality finish. Chadwick says “I have approached the glassware designs no…