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Category Archives: Sparkling Wine
Now This Really Is Weird!
It’s not often that I blog about a single wine. That’s not to say that there aren’t single wines worth focusing on. I mean, everyone was writing about the new vintage of Krug a couple of months ago, but that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Austrian Wine, Sparkling Wine, Wine
Tagged Austrian Wine, Christoph Hoch, Hollenburg, Kalkspitz, Kremstal, Méthode Ancestrale, Newcomer Wines, pét-nat, weird wines
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Bugey Wonderland
I remember a very long time ago playing a game when travelling around France. It involved trying wines which back then had almost never made their way over to the UK. Entraygues-et-du-Fel, Crépy, Irouléguy, Ripaille, Saint-Pourçain or Aprémont, for example. … Continue reading
Posted in Sparkling Wine, Wine
Tagged Altesse, Bugey, Bugey-Cerdon, Cécile Balivet, Franck Peillot, Maison Angelot, Méthode Ancestrale, Mondeuse, Montagnieu, Vincent Balivet
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Bringing Sparkle to Christmas
The chances are that if you are reading this Blog you read a fair bit about wine, and if you do you have probably read something in the past few weeks about English sparkling wine. You may even have drunk … Continue reading