Sparkling Wine News
Enjoy Valentine’s Day with Fox & Fox Sparkling Wine
Make Valentine’s Day sparkle, despite the lockdowns English sparkling wine producer Fox & Fox has teamed up with Amathus Drinks to offer a free Valentine’s card with every purchase of Fox & Fox’s English Sparkling Wines. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, English sparkling wine producer Fox & Fox is spreading the love and…
Tasting Vintage Sparkling Wines From Around The World – 2016
With every great harvest, a vintage is sure to follow, welcome back to the third article of this exclusive series to Glass of Bubbly, where will take you around the world tasting the vintages of different years. We’ve already done two vintage years with 2014 and 2015 vintage sparkling wines, let’s now explore the tastes…
Pinot Noir – Black Grape and yet White Sparkling Wine?
Grapes come in all sorts of sizes and colours and very much differ in qualities / flavours. I’m sure many will remember like I do, as a child, that when grapes were in the fruit bowl it was always far more exciting than those boring old apples or oranges. The only downfall to grapes were…
Touraine Sparkling Wine
Touraine is an immense region, so big that the famous region of Vouvray lies entirely within it! The Touraine region itself is said to stretch the whole way from Chinon in the West, all the way to Orleans in the North-East, down to Valencay in the South East. The reality is that bottles of all…
Slovenia: The Land of Deep Caves & Deep Sparkling Wine Flavours
Having travelled through most of Europe, both new and old, I have seen a great variety of style of wines from classic reds to vintage sparkling. Europe holds most of the world’s wine production, the biggest part of history and certainly the finest examples. The land holding the vineyards is truly wonderful and holding such…
Alternatives to Champagne
Let me first say that I am not hoping to tempt anyone away from Champagne and neither will I say that there is anything that compares exactly to it, but nonetheless, I hear many people interested to know more about the options outside of this famous fizzy wine from France. Champagne is unique, it is…
Ferrari Trento Sparkling Partner of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team
Ferrari Trento confirms its successful partnership with Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team as ‘Sparkling Partner’ for the final stages of the 36th America’s Cup presented by PRADA Italy’s luxury sparkling wine looks to start 2021 on a high, as celebratory drinks partner for the prestigious yachting team The premium Italian winery, Ferrari Trento, joins the…
Is Riesling a Wine or a Grape? Why the Petrol Aromas?
For those who are quite new to wine or simply enjoy a drop of plonk (as our dear Keith Floyd used to refer to it as) without paying too much attention to what you are drinking, then maybe you might question Riesling being a wine or a grape. Some will see Riesling as simply meaning…
Weingut Steininger – A True Expression of the Grape
It is not often that I will declare my favourite in any wine sense from winery to wine region, but when it comes to one certain white grape variety then I have always had my secret little gem label that I go back to. As a lover of sparkling wines then there are countless grapes…