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Pinot Noir Ratafia Champenois
Firstly, what exactly is Ratafia Champenois? Ratafia is a liqueur and usually around 18% alcohol content. It will be made of the must and liqueur of the Champagne region. It requires 10 months ageing which can be either via tank or oak barrels. It can be made from a combination of Champagne grapes and from…
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What is Extra Brut?
On most sparkling wine bottle front labels you will see a description such as Extra Brut or Brut, maybe you’ll see Demi-Sec or Extra-Dry. For many, and sometimes confusing even the wine professionals themselves, these terms are to signify the amount of sugar the sparkling wine will contain. Why the confusion? Now dry doesn’t mean…
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Quench Your Thirst For Bubbly Bargains With These 3 Tips
Looking for the best discounts for your Champagne and sparkling wine? Serious bubbly drinkers know how valuable a sale or discount on their favorite bottles. Every dollar saves goes towards getting an additional bottle or trying something new. The good news is saving money when shopping for wine can be quite easy if you know…
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Top 5 Shortcake Recipes to Enjoy With Your Fizz
Are you looking for something delicious to pair with your drinks? Read the article to know the best shortcake recipes that you will love to enjoy while drinking Champagne or any other beverage. Shortcakes are mouth-watering desserts. They are a kind of crumbly bread that is leavened with baking soda or baking powder. Usually, shortcakes…
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Sherlock Holmes Cocktail
Sherlock: Dear Watson, Watson: Yes Sherlock! Sherlock: The Game’s A Foot… Sherlock Holmes and The Antidote Cocktail Quick, follow me, we have a lot to cover in a short amount of time, I do hope you can keep up. Our Landlady, Mrs Hudson has been poisoned, you remember her, don’t you, sweet old lady. After…
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5 Sparkling Wine Cocktails Perfect For Corporate Launching Events
When launching a new product or campaign for your company, you’re expected to hold a corporate event where you invite employees, business partners, investors, clients, and potential customers so they can share this extra special moment with you. May it be a live or virtual event that calls for cocktail dresses and stylish coats and…
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English Vineyard Tours – Hampshire
If you are looking for vineyards to visit across the UK then nowadays you will be relatively spoilt for choice. Spread out across the country, mostly populated in the southern regions, are wonderful award winning English wineries. It is now an old and quite irrelevant joke that English wines are merely a joke, something created…
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Arunda Brut Nature – Gastronomy Silver – Sea Bass, Lemon & Herbs
You will find Arunda (Sektkellerei) Winery far up in the northern part of Italy within the wine growing region of Trentino-Alto Adige region and what’s more, this fine sparkling wine producer is acknowledged as being the Highest in Europe (1,200m). “The 1,200 meters of altitude of Meltina were ideal for the refining of sparkling wines……
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50 Shades of Rosé Sparkling Wine Awards 2021 Results
The second year of our ‘50 Shades of Rosé‘ awards and we were very pleased to welcome some top judges to join us by the sea as we tasted and scored 57 x rosé sparkling wines* (all from the 2020 Glass of Bubbly Awards). Judges were: Patricia Stefanowicz MW Abbie Bennington DipWSET Kirsty Woodgate DipWSET…
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