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Nyetimber – the stuff of dreams
The night before my visit to Nyetimber I slept badly. I dreamt that I was walking among crowds of people towards the vineyard and was distracted by a giant winery that had somehow been transported from Champagne to the street where I walked. I wandered inside, spent ages exploring and eventually found myself in a…
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Kingscote Vineyards
Hidden half a mile down a quiet track from Vowells Lane, between East Grinstead and Turners Hill is Kingscote Vineyards. Kingscote which was once part of the Gravetye estate and is overlooked by Mill Place Farm, a converted 14 century stone master’s house which is now home to owners Christen and Alison Monge and their four…
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Exploring Champagne and Its Growers – Bernard Pertois Champagne
We are on our way to pay a visit to Bernard Pertois Champagne in the village of Le Mesnil sur Oger. Concerned about the need to have to talk French for the next two hours, I had thankfully fortified myself with a hearty breakfast and a couple of glasses of strong black coffee. Standing on…
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Champagne Drappier
The House Although the vines in Urville were originally planted by the Romans 2000 years ago, it was Saint Bernard, founder of Clairvaux Abbey, who had our cellars built in 1152. Seven centuries later, in 1808, around this magnificently preserved testimony to medieval times, where the exceptional cuvées slumber, the family domaine was created which…
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Champagne Sélèque: The Fruit of a Musical Score
HISTORY The story of the House of Sélèque began in 1965, when Henri Sélèque planted his first plots of vines with the help of his father-in-law, Jean Bagnost (then president of the Pierry wine cooperative). Quickly seduced by the vines, Richard, son of Henri and Françoise, studied oenology and started making Champagne when he joined…
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Champagne Sélèque: The Range
Giving our wines their identity, our “terroir” guides our style and our wine-making choices. We seek optimum grape maturity by sampling the grapes on the vine. We then use small vertical 4000 kg presses, enabling us to keep the juices from each plot separate. The juice ferments slowly in a variety of containers – steel…
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Boutique tour & tasting at Tinwood Estate
I’m endlessly fascinated, not just by the stories of wine production, but of how people came to be in the business of making wine in England & Wales. We hear quite often about people making money in other fields, like medicine or IT, the City or Formula 1 which enables them to make their dream of owning a vineyard…
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Boutique tour & tasting at Tinwood Estate
I’m endlessly fascinated, not just by the stories of wine production, but of how people came to be in the business of making wine in England & Wales. We hear quite often about people making money in other fields, like medicine or IT, the City or Formula 1 which enables them to make their dream of owning a vineyard…
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Prosecco Today…and a Special Prosecco
The first time that I can remember drinking Prosecco was in Tuscany, over 25 years ago. It was a warm summer afternoon, and we had lunch at an elegant restaurant. First we were escorted to the restaurant’s terrace, and amidst the chirping birds, without our asking, we were served a chilled Prosecco. Needless to say–being…
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