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Celebrity Interview: Tim Wonnacott
Tim is an antiques expert and television presenter. He was a director of Sotheby’s, one of the world’s oldest auction houses and is best known for presenting the daytime programme Bargain Hunt from 2003 until 2015. Tim first started appearing regularly on television in the early 1990s on Antiques Roadshow. He was a regular expert…
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Taittinger Travels the World Bringing Smiles into Depths of Africa
The tempting allure of Champagne reaches fans in even the deepest of landlocked Africa. I was recently in Kigali, Rwanda, on a business trip and was excited to discover the strong presence of Taittinger Champagne at the hip Pili Pili Club, bar, bistro and restaurant. The restaurant’s name resonates as effectively as the fashionable crowd…
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Celebrate New Beginnings with Bubbly
Years after leaving school, September still evokes images of crunching over newly-fallen leaves in new shoes on crisp mornings, new pencils and empty exercise books and a sense of possibility and starting afresh. It remains a turning point in the year. Parents are sending children to primary or secondary school or even university for the…
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Glasgow named Prosecco capital of the UK
Discount supermarket Aldi have proclaimed Glasgow to be the ‘capital’ of Prosecco, having published a map revealing the most popular wines in different parts of the UK. The map, based on the first 16,000 transactions on its online wine store, launched in January, also showed Champagne to be the drink of choice in South West…
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Danger in the Vineyards!
On 23rd August a wine grower was crushed to death by his straddle tractor when it overturned in Ludes. This wasn’t the first fatality this year in what’s considered a very hazardous job. If you’ve visited the Champagne vineyards you’ll have seen these distinctive tractors everywhere. In just a few weeks they’ll be transporting the…
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Traditional British Roast Dinner with English Bubbly
I was one, and I am sure of many, that would have chosen a red wine to accompany one of my favourite meals, the traditional British Sunday Roast. I would have added to the already heavy dinner with a deep heavy red wine assuming that this was the most perfect match and over the years I…
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Cava Grand Tasting
When visiting wineries is not an option, it’s a treat when an expert can bring their knowledge and passion to you. The minute MW Sarah Jane Evans begins her Cava seminar at the IWINETC in Spain her love of Spanish fizz flows. She blitzes through the history and basics of Cava with wit and not…
Read MoreRosé English Sparkling Wine Jellies
Now having little neat tricks up your sleeve to surprise your dinner guests must always in some way involve bubbly. Everyone (of course not doing the driving) will have a face lightened when you offer them a glass of bubbly on arrival, now what about adding to that will some jelly sparkling wine surprises to…
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New Beginners’ Wine Guide Helps Schools in Sierra Leone
Wine entrepreneur Jerry Lockspeiser is to publish a new beginners’ wine guide, called YOUR WINE QUESTIONS ANSWERED: The 25 things wine drinkers most want to know, with 100% of its profits being used to build primary schools in Sierra Leone. The guide features a chapter that answers the question: ‘What is the difference between Champagne…
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