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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Sparkling Summer Sales

The summer heatwave and Rio Olympics fuelled an increase in sales of sparkling wines in the UK, according to Nielsen. The consumer insights company reported that over the four weeks ending in August 13th, Champagne sales rose by around five percent in value – faster than the 52-week average pace of growth.  They also found…

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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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Cricket Fans Warned Not to Pop Champagne Corks

Members of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) have been advised not to pop Champagne corks in order to avoid distracting or injuring outfielders at Lord’s. The move follows formal complaints from visiting teams that their outfielders had been distracted by the sound of corks landing close to them and that flying corks constitute a hazard. …

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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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Champagne Jean Josselin Magnum Cuvée Des Jean

Champagne grower-producers Jean Josselin particularly recommend their magnums of Cuvée Des Jean, their 100% Pinot non vintage Champagne. If you’re more interested in weekends in the countryside, large tables of friends, grilled steaks and cheese, then this fruity, powerful and robust Champagne is for you! This Champagne comes in an attractive curved bottle.  To look…

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Worst Champagne Harvest in 30 Years

It’s being called the worst harvest in the Aube in 30 years. The vines either have no grapes or a bunch every metre where there would normally be 10. Nathalie Falmet at Rouvre-les-Vignes has decided not to harvest this year. She has 3.5 ha of vines and with an expected yield of around 1,000 kg…

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New Beginners’ Wine Guide Helps Schools in Sierra Leone

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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Can the World’s Love of Champagne now be Challenged?

I would say that it is fair to state that almost all things in life can be challenged, let’s face it that at every new Olympics world records are broken,  each year large internationally recognised businesses collapse and new start ups excel and each week many eagerly await to see who will be replaced as the…

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