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Charred Cork Cocktail
68% of all cork is produced for wine bottle stoppers. Cork has been used to seal wine bottles since the 6th century BC, in Tuscany, the Romans used corks to seal amphorae and barrels that contained wine, they did also use olive oil to cover the surface of the wine in amphorae which prevented oxidation,…
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Bartender Made Cocktails – Oaxaca Royal
This article is made in collaboration with Grigoris Mountanos, an amazing Greek Bartender in Spain. The Cocktail that you are about to make is one of Grigoris Mountanos’s Signature Fizz Cocktails, which he makes at Boadas Cocktails, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Let’s Meet The Bartender! “My name is Grigoris Mountanos, I’m from Kalamata in Greece.…
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Blazing A Path Into The Future Of Champagne
Charlotte De Sousa Is Uniquely Leading The Movement Towards A More Inclusive Industry The story of Champagne DE SOUSA is one of family values and ethics of respect for nature. An atypical success story that has its original roots outside of Champagne, all the way down South on the Iberian Peninsula. Champagne DE SOUSA is…
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Rhubarb and Almond Tart With Sparkling Wine
The Afternoon Tea, or its more substantial High Tea sibling with both sweet and savoury options, is a meal opportunity that cries out for sparkling wine. Just to be clear, I will happily drink sparkling wine with a toasted sandwich or a stick of baguette, I don’t need the whole extended spread as an excuse…
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Uncorked: Differentiating Sparkling Wines of the World
Pop, fizz, clink! You have a celebration approaching, and you need a bottle of bubbles to celebrate. But what wine should you buy? And when you are in the store staring at the array of wines on the shelves, what is the difference between the many types of sparkling wine? Here is your guide to…
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Romantic Valentine’s Day Sparkling Wines
The day of love returns, in all its romantic glory, from flowers to chocolate, Victoria’s Secret to the finest Glass of Bubbly, a new year means a new range of award-winning Sparkling Wines, a selection of Fizz specifically chosen for love, each easy to enjoy, while still delivering a plentiful experience, but never distracting you…
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Sparkling Wine Vocabulary
I certainly agree that wine is to be enjoyed and we do not always want to engross ourselves too much on the ins and outs of the science behind how it arrived in the glass we are sipping from. There are books written on certain wine regions and even dedicated to wineries which I am…
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Why are you Ignoring Portuguese Bubbly?
The country’s traditional-method sparkling wines are an open secret to the locals. Here’s what you need to know to join the party… The fun, fresh, lightly effervescent and highly gulpable Vinho Verde style with which most are familiar is all fine and good. We’ll briefly address it here—and I expect we’ve all shamelessly sloshed back…
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Sustainable, Biodynamic, Organic, Natural Sparkling Wines Explained
With 100,000’s of wineries dotted around countless countries globally (7.5 million hectares of vineyard approx.) producing around 33 billion bottles of wine. The footprint this sector has is tremendous, which is why many governing bodies of wine regions are focusing on how the grapes are grown and the production methods. If we look at an…
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