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Five Steps to Enjoying your Very Own English Sparkling Wine
Is sipping a glass of English sparkling wine overlooking your own vineyard an impossible dream? Not to Bruce and Sybilla Tindale at High Clandon. They planted their vines in 2004, harvested in 2007 and enjoyed the first vintage of their very own fizz two years ago. So, how did they do it? Well, it seems to me…
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Gusbourne Estate Sponsors Digital Wine Communications Conference As Part Of Ten Year Anniversary Celebration
Gusbourne Estate, England’s most prestigious boutique wine producer, is pleased to announce that it will be sponsoring the 7th Digital Wine Communications Conference in Montreux, Switzerland taking place from 31st October – 2nd November. Gusbourne planted its first vines in 2004 and in order to celebrate the Estate’s 10th anniversary, Gusbourne will be holding a special tasting…
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Elgar Wine
Six varieties of vine are currently in production – Schonburger, Huxelrebe, Seyval Blanc, Orion, Phoenix and Rondo. Our main vineyard is Lovells Vineyard which is on a five acre site in Welland which was planted in 2009. Our two small vineyards of 0.5 acre and 1 acre in Tiltridge Vineyard, planted over twenty years ago,…
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Making my own Bottle of English Sparkling Wine!
OK, I exaggerate slightly, the truth is that I did the last stages of making a bottle of fizz, but if I had called this post “Finishing a bottle of English sparkling wine”, you would have thought that I had just drunk a whole bottle, which wouldn’t have been that much to shout about… It all started on a…
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Trump Winery Wins 2014 Monticello Cup
Charlottesville, VA – April 11, 2014: Trump Winery adds the Monticello Cup to its list of recent successes which include gold medals at the San Francisco International Wine Competition and Jefferson Cup Invitational, two best-in-class wins at Vineyard and Winery Management East meets West Competition and the Jefferson Cup Invitational, and being named to Gayot’s…
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Haywire Winery
Haywire wines are made at Okanagan Crush Pad winery in Summerland, BC, where owners Christine Coletta and Steve Lornie established Switchback Vineyard in 2007. The wines are made by Michael Bartier with guidance from Italian consulting winemaker Alberto Antonini. Haywire is committed to crafting natural wines that tell the story of our land. Haywire is an…
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Noble Ridge Vineyard and Winery
Noble Ridge Vineyard & Winery lays in the Okanagan Valley at the northern most tip of the only desert in Canada. The winery is named for the noble varieties of grapes grown and the ridge that divides the land on which they thrive. But this noble name is more than just a nod to the…
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Pruning The Vines
I recently visited the Champagne region carrying out some research into new champagnes (new in the sense they have no presence in the UK market) and I am delighted to say that we discovered some amazing new champagnes. I’ll blog more about these soon, but one thing I love about visiting the region is that…
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Champagne Boude Baudin – Interview With Benjamin Boude
The love of Champagne is infinite, a language that everyone can understand, a sparkle that can shine in anyone’s glass, it can connect people, brings them together and places a smile on faces around the world. In this exclusive feature on Glass of Bubbly, we speak with Benjamin Boude, the owner of Champagne Boude Baudin.…
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