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Category Archives: Sparkling Wine
Great Exhibition 2018 – with the emphasis on Great
Yesterday was the Winter 2018 Great Exhibition Tasting in the arches under Holborn Viaduct, this time featuring Winemakers Club and Carte Blanche Wines. These Tastings are always good, but there must have been something in the air yesterday, because there … Continue reading
Posted in biodynamic wine, Champagne, Hungarian Wine, Natural Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Merchants, Wine Tastings
Tagged Adrien Dhondt, Ancre Hill Estate, Ben Walgate, Benoit Dehu, Carte Blanche Wines, Christelle Guibert Orange Wine Itata, Craig Sheard, Dhondt-Grellet, Domaine des Marnes Blanches, Domaine L'Ecu, Elemental Bob, Eliane Delalot, Fabien Jouves, Great Exhibition Tasting 2018, Gudfish Wines, Hegyikalo, Jerome Francois, Karim Vionnet Beaujolais, La Grange de L'Oncle Charles, Maxime Magnon, Meinklang H15, Olivier Horiot, Pelle Pince Alma Palinka, PN17 Petnat, Rosé des Riceys, Stefan Vetter, Sylvaner, Tillingham Wines, Tom Shobbrook, Vincent Caillé, Winemakers Club
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Our House (Taittinger)
Many of you will know that I have something of a thing for Grower Champagne. It comes from an interest in wines which express “place”, terroir wines, I suppose. But that doesn’t mean I ignore the so-called Grandes Marques. For … Continue reading
Posted in Champagne, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Champagne, Champagne Cellar Tours, Champagne Tastings, Chateau de la Marquetterie, Comtes de Champagne 2006, Folies de la Marquetterie, Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, Solent Cellar Tastings, Taittinger, Taittinger Prelude
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Liem and Larmat – A Perfect Combination
Like most people, I imagine, I came to appreciate Champagne first as a celebratory drink. Most often it was the non-vintage wine of a well known Grande Marque, or occasionally a vintage wine, consumed several years too soon. But in … Continue reading
Eastern France Part 5 – Bérêche, Champagne
I can tell you two things about my relationship with Bérêche which will inform your reading of the rest of this article. First of all I will name you my favourite four Champagnes. They are Péters Chétillons, Philipponnat Clos des … Continue reading
Posted in Champagne, Sparkling Wine, Wine and Food, Wine Travel
Tagged Bérèche, Bérêche Crus Sélectionnés, Bereche et Fils, Campania Remensis, Côte Montagne and Vallée, Champagne, Coteaux Champenois, Craon de Ludes, Eastern France Trip 2017, Grower Champagne, Le Cran, Lees ageing under cork, Maison Bereche, Montagne de Reims Growers, Raphael Bereche, Reflet d'Antan, Terres et Vins de Champagne, Vincent Bereche, Vins d'Auteurs de Champagne
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Growing Reputation
One of my regular readers asked a while back for some recommendations for Grower Champagnes in advance of a forthcoming visit, and I’ve been meaning to oblige. This month’s Decanter Magazine has a Tasting of Grower wines, but as always, … Continue reading
Posted in Champagne, Sparkling Wine, Wine
Tagged Bérèche, Cedric Bouchard, Champagne, Diebolt-Vallois Fleur de Passion, Francis Boulard, Grower Champagne, Jerome Prevost, Laurent Champs, Le Creux d'Enfer, Les Chetillons, Les Rachais, Lilbert, Olivier Collin, Pascal Agrapart, Pierre Peters, Raphael Bereche, Reflet d'Antan, Rodolphe Peters, Rosé for Albane, Roses de Jeanne, Sparkling Wine, Ulysse Collin, Vilmart, Vilmart Coeur de Cuvée, Vincent Bereche
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Another “Masters” Class (Spanish Whites)
Just six of us were at Masters Superfish yesterday for a lunch themed on Spanish Whites. I must say that there are those among us who feel that our Fino lunches here in Waterloo provide a wine style most suited to fish … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Spanish Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine and Food
Tagged Adegas Coroa Godello 2006, Alan de Val, Bodega Can Ramon, Bodegas Sonsierra Rioja, Castell d'Encus, Clos Lentiscus Sumoll Ferèstec, Colet, Colet-Navazos Reserva 2010, Costers del Segre, Ekam, Equipo Navazos, Godello, Masters Superfish Waterloo, Palacio de Canedo, Pardoxin Dulce, Pedrazais Godello Sobre Lias, Prado a Tope, Spanish Riesling, Spanish sparkling wine, Spanish white wines, Sweet Godello, Tempranillo Blanco, Valdeorras
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Crémant – More than Mere Froth
Following The Vaults Tasting last Monday, I was back in London for an interesting little tasting the following day. Organized once more by Business France, Crémant presented twelve producers of this category of sparkling wine from five out of the eight … Continue reading
Posted in Burgundy, Loire, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged Ballarin, Business France Wine Tastings, Caves Bailly-Lapierre, Caves de Grenelle, Célène, Crémant, Crémant d'Alsace, Crémant de Bordeaux, Crémant de Bourgogne, Crémant de Limoux, Crémant de Loire, Crémant Tasting, Domaine Joseph Gruss, Domaine Schwach, Domaine Zinck, Domaines Auriol, La Chablisienne Sparkling Wines, La Compagnie de Burgondie, Moutard-Diligent, Sparkling Saumur, Sparkling Wine, Veuve Ambal, Victorine de Chastenay
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Austria’s Sparkling Again (Sekt not dregs and…)
Monday 7 February, I should have been at the Wines of Austria Tasting at London’s Institute of Directors. I wasn’t. Never mind, I’m still going to write about Austrian wines, but some of the Austrian wines you don’t often hear … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Austrian Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged Austrian Sekt, Austrian Sparkling Wine, Blauer Wildbacher, Christoph Hoch Kalkspitz, Claus Preisinger Ancestral, Fritz Wieninger, Loimer Extra Brut, Martin Diwald Gruner Veltliner Brut, Meinklang Foam, Meinklang Prosa Frizzante, Schilcher, Schilchersekt, Schloss Gobelsburg Blanc de Blancs, Schlumberger Cuvee Klimt, Schlumberger Sekt, Steininger, Wieninger Cuvee Katharina, Wines of Austria
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The Emperor’s New Clothes are Real
This is just a quick shout for Newcomer Wines, the Austrian specialist wine merchant who used to be in Shoreditch Boxpark. The emperor in this case is, with typical corny humour, naturally one of the Habsburgs, and whilst in the … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Sparkling Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Heroes, Wine Merchants, Wine Shops
Tagged Andreas Nittnaus, Austrian Wine, Austrian Wine in London, Christian Tschida, Claus Preisinger, Czech Wine, Fed by Water Dalston, Fed by Water Hackney, Fed by Water Vegan Cafe, London Wine Shops, Milan Nestarec, Newcomer Wines, Puszta Libre
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 