Thorny Forest Cocktail

When strolling through the forest, if you’re not careful, you may end up being twisted around by the distant sounds of breaking twigs and howling winds, walking right into the fantasy forest of witches, elves, orcs and fairies, where what’s up is now down and what you think you see may never appear. This Cocktail…

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What Sparkling Wine To Pair With Deviled Eggs?

The wonderful, the heavenly, the devilishly delicious, Deviled Eggs possess a name of evil, but in fact, deliver a taste of virtue. The Deviled Eggs can also be referred to as Dressed Eggs, Russian Eggs or Stuffed Eggs, the simple way of explaining them would be to boil an egg, cut it in half, remove…

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Forget Me Not Sparkling Wine

Sometimes you pop open a bottle of Sparkling Wine that is unlike any other that you’ve ever tasted, displaying either a unique colour, aroma or flavour, making that characteristic bond with your memory, so that it becomes a Forget Me Not Sparkling Wine. This article is being created to showcase one amazing Forget Me Not…

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Pick of the Best – Oliver vs Christopher – Brut Nature

This is the second article in the Pick of the Best series, we’ve both picked one bottle of award winning Sparkling Wine that we’ve very much enjoyed and we’ll showcase it to each other, this time we’ve both chosen a Brut Nature Sparkling Wine and we’ll see if we can be persuaded by the other…

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The World’s Best Rosé Sparkling Wine for 2022

50 shades of Rosé judges 2022

The thing I love most about wine is how it can surprise you. This not only refers to the aromas and flavours, but also the wonderful stories that lay behind the labels and wineries even before we consider the touristic delights of where they are grown. I am sure most of us will have experienced…

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Sparkling Wine With Salted Dark Chocolate Tart

Get ready for something delicious, something scrumptious and something toothsome, we be making, eating and pairing a Salted Dark Chocolate Tart, with a wonderful Vintage Slovenian Sparkling Wine from the Winery of Medot. The history of Chocolate Tarts is more of a recent tale, Chocolate throughout the centuries has been a rather exclusive commodity, it…

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Walnut Potica and Slovenian Sparkling Wine

Let’s combine two wonderful creations from the small European country of Slovenia, with some of their Sparkling Wines and their national dish of Potica. Potica is considered a Slovenian dessert, made more often from bread than a cake, but always including nuts of the baker’s choice, we’ve gone with the popular walnut. Potica (pronounced poh-TEET-za)…

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What Sparkling Wine To Pair With Swedish Meatballs?

One of the most popular Swedish dishes to enjoy is the Svenska Köttbullar, otherwise known as Swedish Meatballs, but what makes these Meatballs Swedish? The typical Meatball that comes to mind to most people is the Italian Meatballs in a tomato and herb sauce, Swedish Meatballs are typically smaller, made with a 50-50 ratio of…

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Herbal Gardens Sparkling Wine

Welcome to the new Glass of Bubbly Category of Herbal Gardens. This new category was introduced to highlight the fantastic Sparkling Wines that display a Herbal/Naturous Character, it was added to our collection of Categories in 2021 with Weingut Steininger’s Sauvignon Blanc Reserve Sekt 2017 from Austria taking home the first Herbal Gardens Trophy. We…

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