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Enjoy Bubbly this Christmas with Aldi
Celebrate the festive season with Aldi’s Veuve Monsigny Champagne Brut. A bestseller and highly acclaimed award-winner from the small, consistently excellent Champagne house Philizot & Fils, run by husband and wife duo Stéphane and Virginie Philizot. Enjoy an intense nose of baked apple, brioche and stone fruits and relish in gorgeous flavours of apples, red…
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Celebrate the Festive Season with Perrier-Jouët
Perrier-Jouët are celebrating the festive season with a prestigious limited edition white and gold box, sprinkled with sparkling nature-inspired motifs, containing its signature Perrier-Jouët Cuvée Grand Brut Champagne. The pure white metal coffret, whose exclusive design recalls a vintage pencil box with a sliding lid, is decorated with fine golden ornaments inspired by the patterns…
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Cranbellini – Perfect for the Festive Season
Cranbellini Ingredients: 75ml Prosecco Superiore Valdobbiadene DOCG 25ml Rio D’Oro cranberry juice 1 punnet fresh cranberries 1 tsp Stonemill mixed spice 1 tsp sugar syrup 1 tsp The Pantry icing sugar Method: Dip the rim of a chilled Champagne flute into the Rio D’Oro cranberry juice and then 1 tsp The Pantry icing sugar Dip…
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Bollinger Renews Partnership with England Rugby
Champagne Bollinger has renewed its partnership with The Rugby Football Union (RFU), which will continue as the official Champagne of England Rugby for another four years until 2020. Champagne Bollinger also becoming the exclusive Champagne supplier to Twickenham Stadium for all non-match day events. It will also benefit from match day activation and branding rights.…
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Win 6 Bottles of Bubbly from Virgin Wines (NOW CLOSED)
The case includes: 2 bottles of Kuehn Crémant d’Alsace Brut Cuvee Prestige 2 bottles of Champagne Veuve Rayer Brut Tradition 2 bottles of Il Cortile Sereno Prosecco Brut To Enter: Follow @glassofbubbly and @VirginWines on Twitter, then tweet us ‘I’d like to win a case of bubbly’ or [contact-form-7 id=”32471″ title=”Competitions Form Virgin Wines”] Terms & Conditions: There is…
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Simpsons Sparkling in North Downs of Kent
October 26th 2016 – Charles and Ruth Simpson proudly officially open their new winery in Barham, Kent. Valued members of the national wine press and trade were there to enjoy the moment with them and the ever friendly and engaging Oz Clarke was asked to cut the ribbon and deliver a highly entertaining and educational…
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Dom Pérignon Rosé P2 1996 Tasting at Claridges, London
“Unashamedly pushing the boundaries of Dom Pérignon in recent years” among many other inspirational words were shared by the host of the Dom Pérignon P2 Rosé tasting, Richard Geoffroy. As the invited guests sat down in the ‘Dom Pérignon Suite’ of Claridges, you could see the excited anticipation that we were about to taste something unique, something which…
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Harvest at Jenkyn Place Vineyard
Harvest at Jenkyn Place Vineyard in Hampshire is underway, the Pinots have all been picked with the Chardonnay grapes still to come. Winemaker at Jenkyn Place, Dermot Sugrue says: “The grapes this year are very, very good. We have luckily had no mildew damage and only a few vines have suffered from frost damage and…
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Plenty of Products from Pomace
The first three steps of the Champagne making process result in environmentally hazardous waste. Pressing the grapes gives marc or pomace. It consists of skin, pulp, pips and stems. Clarification gives deposits in the must. The first fermentation gives lees. Local distillers will collect this waste and transform it into a wide variety of products.…
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