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Understanding Prosecco Better
Prosecco for many is that new fizz fix in our lives from weddings to the cheap bottle for two at our local bar, the symphony of ripe fruity flavours it offers suits many of our palates and makes for an easy drinking solution to suit any occasion. Fear not, this is not an in-depth educational…
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Sparkling Wines of 40 Knots Vineyard Canada
Layne Craig, owner of 40 Knots Vineyard talks about his Canadian sparkling wine. For the love of traditional method sparkling. Our choice to be here, on Vancouver Island but more specifically Comox affords us the opportunity to make great sparkling wines. We have very similar weather to Champagne, very similar terroir to northern reaches of…
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Discovering Serrapetrona DOCG
About 10 years ago, in 2006 to be exact, on a quick visit to Le Marche, I took a wrong turn and ended up in a place called Serrapetrona. It was a foggy day, but there was something very mystical about the place. Heading down a side street, I came across an open door and…
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Christopher Walkey
Christopher Walkey is the founder of Glass of Bubbly and a professional Champagne and Sparkling Wine correspondent and judge who carries one of the world’s biggest online following in the sparkling wine sector. Christopher Walkey on Twitter with over 16,000 followers: http://www.twitter.com/chriswalkey Christopher Walkey on LinkedIn with over 5,000 professional connections: http://www.linkedin.com/in/walkey Christopher Walkey on…
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Supermarket Fizz: Part 3 Aldi’s Valentine’s Range 2018
Many millions of people across the UK will no doubt be celebrating in one way or another Valentine’s Day from that special romantic dinner to just about remembering, on your way back from the office, to by a bunch of flowers for that special lady in your life. So, in amongst the roses, the chocolates,…
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How to organise and run a Trade & Press Wine tasting event
We have just recently run our fifth Champagne and Sparkling Wine trade & press tasting event and I thought it was about time that I shared our experiences with our readers along with some tips and words of advice to include looking back at errors we made and learnt from so to those who are…
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An Interview with Crémant d’Alsace – Gustave Lorentz
How important is it to be fully organic in today’s world of wine making? The first reason why we at Gustave Lorentz wanted to move organic was to produce a better wine harvesting less grapes, but with more personality/quality! In today’s’ world you have only a few markets which are really into organic wines and it…
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The World’s Finest came together at Westminster
It was always my dream to have a room full of trophy and gold winning Champagne & Sparkling Wines that were chosen by some of the best and most respected international wine judges and bubbly lovers. A room where wines are easily identifiable by consumer style titles over confusing specific wine terms or point scoring…
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Delavenne Pere & Fils – Grand Cru Brut Rosé – Highly Commended Sea Breeze
Congratulations to Delavenne Pere & Fils with their Grand Cru Brut Rosé which received a highly commended medal at The World’s Finest Glass of Bubbly awards 2017. A panel of 36 top industry wine judges tasted all the entries for 2017 and were able to not only scores wines with medals, but also place them in to easy…
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