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Will English Sparkling Wine Ever Edge Ahead of Champagne?
Naked Wines are predicting that 2016 will be the year that English sparkling wines edge ahead of Champagne for the first time. The record breaking Indian summer has meant that 2016’s grape crop will be the ripest, most concentrated and highest quality for decades. In contrast, France has had one of the toughest vintages with…
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New York Champagne Week
New York Champagne Week runs 7th-13th November, in its 4th year it will be bigger and better with more bubbly than ever. For the trade and media, there will be the Opening Celebration, the annual Champagne Cocktail Competition, pairing experiences like ‘Champagne & Caviar’ and seminar concepts like ‘Back that Glass Up’ (a comparative glassware tasting).…
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Which Champagne or Sparkling Wine to Suit your Celebration
Well the good news is that in most occasions we tend to associate Champagne & Sparkling Wines with good moods, fine times and happy experiences, rarely do we pair bubbly with anything less than a smile raising situation. I see sparkling wines, especially the word Champagne, as not only a wine, but also a state of…
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Essential Accessories for Champagne & Sparkling Wine
Ice Bucket Using an ice bucket to hold your ice nuggets not only makes a nice focal point for the wine but it also chills it much quicker – just 20 minutes rather than 2 hours in the fridge. There are many different designs around, some branded with a particular label and some made with…
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Is it the End of Ice for Champagne Ice Buckets?
The Kaelo, a new high-end interior design innovation, is an ‘iceless’ ice bucket that can be inset into a kitchen surface. The ice-cold chamber chills bottles with minimal effort from the user, and, unlike traditional ice buckets, keeps them dry so that Champagne and fine wines can be poured with ease. It maintains a consistently…
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How to Easily Identify Good Champagne
I am sure that many will say that all Champagne is good. Who can ever refuse a glass of bubbly and who would dare say that such a prestigious wine could ever be bad, but just like most things in life, from clothing to cars, from holidays to watches, there are many types and many…
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First Mobile Champagne & Prosecco Bar for Northern Ireland
A Northern Irish entrepreneur has set up the region’s first mobile Champagne and Prosecco bar. Communications manager Alex Megarry had the idea for Bubbly Bar after she came across a mobile Champagne bar at the Burghley Horse Trials in Lincolnshire last year. She was looking to start a new venture as she is getting married…
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5 Important Factors in Producing Good Champagne
Champagne is a wonderful thing to study, from enjoying tasting the many varied labels and varieties to looking in to how it is made and the people behind producing some of the world’s finest labels. Not only is Champagne steeped in history, but the complex way that it is made means that it’s superior taste…
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Win a Bottle of Select Réserve RCL Champagne (NOW CLOSED)
Select Réserve is a stylish Champagne made exclusively from Pinot Meunier. The palate has a real explosion of appley fruit with a hint of raspberry. www.rclchampagne.co.uk To Enter: Follow @glassofbubbly and @rclemaireuk on Twitter, then tweet us ‘I’d like to win a bottle of RCL Champagne’ Terms & Conditions: There is no cash alternative and the prize is…
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