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Gaudinat-Boivin Grande Réserve
A roughly equal combination of white and black grapes (45% chardonnay, 40% pinot meunier, 15% pinot noir) from several harvests and ages for 3 years in a bottle. Tasting notes An excellent Champagne presenting a pretty golden colour, enticing aromas of white flowers and fruit with a generous harmony of honey and fresh fruit on…
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Huré Frères Cuvée Mémoire
A wine with a quirky story, Memoire is blended using the solera method, comprising 30 reserve vintage wines and with a year’s maturation in oak barrels. This ultimate Champagne gives testimony to the years of family ‘savoir faire’. A true snapshot of the domain, this cuvee is blended from all of our ‘terroirs’, with each…
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Wearing Memories designer Kiron Barui
Kiron Barui Kiron has been a Champagne lover for many years and started to collect caps from the bottles she enjoyed with family and friends, writing on the back the date and place thus creating a unique and special memory. It took two years for Kiron and her jeweler to perfect a beautiful ring that…
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Désirée: Compares Ancestral Dioise Method & Traditional Method
Désirée compares the Ancestral Dioise Method and the Traditional Method of winemaking. Ancestral Dioise Method CLAIRETTE DE DIE GRAPE VARIETY White Muscat with small grains (75 to 100%). Clairette variety (25 % maximum). COLLECT OF GRAPES Grape harvest by hand, Treading of grapes. PRESSING Discontinuous horizontal wine presses.Selection of juices pressed. FILTR ATION OF JUICES…
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Nyetimber – the stuff of dreams
The night before my visit to Nyetimber I slept badly. I dreamt that I was walking among crowds of people towards the vineyard and was distracted by a giant winery that had somehow been transported from Champagne to the street where I walked. I wandered inside, spent ages exploring and eventually found myself in a…
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Wearing Memories
Chances are you remember the last time you opened a bottle of Champagne, sharing such special moments create a cherish memory you want to lock away safely forever. Whether it is an anniversary, birthday, and wedding or catching up with friends and loved ones these are memories that bring joy every time you remember them.…
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Kingscote Vineyards
Hidden half a mile down a quiet track from Vowells Lane, between East Grinstead and Turners Hill is Kingscote Vineyards. Kingscote which was once part of the Gravetye estate and is overlooked by Mill Place Farm, a converted 14 century stone master’s house which is now home to owners Christen and Alison Monge and their four…
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The British Bottle Company
The British Bottle Company is the first company to specialise in the export of premium British drinks. Founded by food and drink entrepreneur Red Johnson, the company represents a portfolio of suppliers in three categories including English Sparkling Wine. Red is supported by an Advisory Board that includes leading names from the drinks industry including his…
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Is the Cru System a ‘Cru’cial guide to quality?
The Échelle des Crus vineyard rating system was introduced in the early to mid twentieth century to categorise individual grape producing villages “crus” in Champagne, providing them with a percentile score. The intention of the system was to ensure growers received a fair price for their grapes. However, since its inception just 17 villages have…
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