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Villa-Sandi – Asolo DOCG Superiore Millesimato Brut 2016 – Bronze Summer Days

By Christopher Walkey / 5th February 2018

Congratulations to Villa-Sandi with their Asolo DOCG  Superiore Millesimato Brut 2016 which received a bronze 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…

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Christopher Walkey

By Christopher Walkey / 4th February 2018

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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Giusti – Rosalia DOC Treviso – Bronze Summer Days

By Christopher Walkey / 2nd February 2018

Congratulations to Giusti with their Rosalia DOC Treviso which received a bronze 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 to understand…

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The 4 Worst Ways People Ruin Champagne

By Glass of Bubbly Content / 30th January 2018

Champagne and sparkling wine have a certain festive atmosphere to them – we usually drink them when we celebrate something, like a wedding, the passing of the year, or even the birthday of a loved one. But most people don’t drink it frequently enough to know how to enjoy it correctly. While this is bad…

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Supermarket Fizz: Part 3 Aldi’s Valentine’s Range 2018

By Christopher Walkey / 30th January 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

By Christopher Walkey / 30th January 2018

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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Champagne Bureau now allows itself to mix in with all the other Sparkling Wines at The London Wine Fair

By Christopher Walkey / 29th January 2018

Though I greatly appreciate and admire Champagne and have fallen in love many times with certain labels and the countless beauty spots from the region, I have always said it is just another wine and to be specific, a sparkling wine. Though this might not be what the Comité Champagne saw themselves as, which would…

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Sparkling Cocktails with Passion

By Bernard Barbuk / 29th January 2018

Anyone interested in the history of cocktails should give some thought to the cautionary tale of the passiflora edulis, whose fruit we Anglo Saxons call ‘passion fruit’ because the historically correct Portuguese name frightens us:  ‘maracuja’. As borrowed from the locals in Brazil, circa 1600, when the Ports were the first Europeans to come across…

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An Interview with Crémant d’Alsace – Gustave Lorentz

By Christopher Walkey / 29th January 2018

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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