Christopher Walkey
Amazing accommodation in Champagne: Henri Giraud
The Champagne region is plentiful for locations that thoroughly merit being visited and enjoyed. It is quite an expansive wine region of some 34,000 hectares of vineyards, it’s a UNESCO member and has easy access by train and road as well as by plane. For visitors coming from England, it is merely a three and…
Read MoreThe Glass of Bubbly Awards 2019 review
We saw another year of increased entries globally as the awards further their awareness and importantly also the understanding of the concept within wineries and distributors looking to communicate their wines better to consumers / buyers. I certainly agree that there seems to be more and more wine awards appearing so it is important that…
Read MoreSmall Champagne Producer is named the World’s Best Bubbly!
A small grower Champagne label, Champagne Roger Brun, producing just 50,000 bottles per year has won the title of The World’s Finest Glass of Bubbly for 2019 at an awards ceremony in Westminster. A tiny producer compared in the world of Champagne compared to the annual production from the bigger houses with Moet & Chandon…
Read MoreJoker of the Pack
52 cards , four suits and two main colours – Sometimes though there are two extra cards to look out for commonly known as the jokers! Cards have been around for centuries and have helped to evolve much loved family games such as snap and rummy and have also funded many casino with $’s thanks…
Read More5 Great ‘First Date’ Champagnes for Romance
Just the word Champagne will itself set the mind racing full of positive and joyous thoughts. It is the sparkling wine that is right up your street when it comes to thoughts of romance and seduction, when we wish to discover l’amour then Champagne has all the boxes ticked. The famous French sparkling wine that…
Read MoreCircumference Wines – A new distribution partner for Glass of Bubbly
As Glass of Bubbly increase their global brand awareness and importantly improve ranking naturally across organic searches online, the time was inevitably going to be upon us that we were to set up an eCommerce arm to the business. The new Glass of Bubbly website, released early 2019, incorporates an online store where soon consumers…
Read MoreDiscover Bjana – Discover Slovenia
A country of just 7,827 square miles, with snow peaked mountains and a warm Mediterranean coastline, only a 2.07 million population and most importantly and rightly so, the only country in the world with love in its name. Nestled between Italy, Austria, Hungry and Croatia the country of Slovenia is rich in many things from…
Read MoreCharmat doesn’t always mean Prosecco
In the world of sparkling wines, there are two main methods of production, the traditional method that sees a second fermentation occurring in the bottle and the Charmat method where the fermentation happens within large pressurised stainless-steel tanks. What exactly is Charmat Method? Also known as the ‘tank method’ the Charmat method (patented in 1907…
Read MoreSparkling Rosé Sangria in a Can
I must admit that there is nothing quite like a wine that is poured from a bottle, the whole experience from studying the label, pulling/popping the cork and then pouring either to decant or straight to the glass is part and parcel of enjoying a good wine. Sparkling wines are even more of a bottle…
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