Can Light Really Effect Your Wine?

One of the most important parts of enjoying wine, especially fine wines, is how they are stored and served. Once the winemaker has completed their job and your independent importer has bought in and placed your favourite bottle on the shelf directly in your eye line, then the wine is in your hands… What you…

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What is Methode Charmat?

Methode Charmat

There are many ways in which wines are made that deliver varied styles and results. From generation to generation, throughout the world, wine production has evolved and improved yet basic practises have usually remained in order to produce both still and sparkling wines. One such way is called the methode Charmat or Charmat method, better…

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Love Yourself Love SLOVEnia

Love Yourself Radgonske Gorice

Whenever the word ‘love’ is mentioned, especially in conversations regarding wine, then I think about Slovenia. Why? Well it is the only country with ‘love’ within it’s name (Slovenia) and also that I have spent many wonderful hours in Slovenia touring vineyards and discovering amazing flavours that are well hidden and deserve global recognition with…

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Tuna and Vintage Slovenian Sparkling Wine

You sit down at a table and a glorious vintage of Slovenian Sparkling Wine is placed by your side, the waiter takes of the foil and removes the cork with a little hiss, the perfect sound when opening a bottle of fizz, the waiter says with compliments of the house, we’d like you to pair…

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9 Trophy Winning Rosé Sparkling Wines

9 Trophy Winning Rosé Sparkling Wines

Recognition towards the quality of a wine is mostly via industry awards where judges usually blind taste and score examples for the likes of colours, aromas and flavours. We will see both medals and trophies awarded and many recipients will showcase their success by way of adding a badge on to their bottle – This…

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Untouched by Light Sparkling Wine

Slovenian Sparkling Wine is making waves in the UK market, displaying quality from the big and small wineries to industry professionals and wine experts, but Slovenian have just launched a new bottle of Sparkling Wine that will draw people’s attention. After the launch of Radgonske Gorice’s Untouched by Light Sparkling Wine, which has been harvested,…

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Around the World In 80 Days Fizz Cocktail

Following closely in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg and Passepartout, the Classic Story of Around The World In 80 Days was written by Jules Verne, where it sees Phileas Fogg’s friends bet that he can’t travel around the world in 80 days, he accepts and takes his newly appointed French valet Passepartout with him, seeing…

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Dessert Levels in Sparkling Wines

Desert Levels in Sparkling Wines

A dessert wine, though there are varied interpretations and descriptions, is a wine that is usually / recommended to be enjoyed during or after the dessert. It does not necessarily mean the wine will be a highly sweet liquor type after a heavy last course, in fact, it could be just a subtle hint of…

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Sherbet Fizz Cocktails

Heading back to when love was free, hair was long and revolution was in the air. Sherbet Fizzy Cocktails, I’m looking forward to these, I’m a big fan of sherbet sweets, usually eaten by dipping a lollipop or liquorice into the sherbet powder and then licking it off. Sherbet powder gained popularity in the 19th…

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