We see more and more sparkling wine bottles designed with tiny crystals added for decoration, some of these may be a lot less complicated than others – There are now many smaller companies that offer the service to decorate bottles especially for you, send them your Dom Perignon vintage magnum and within a couple of…

When it comes to bubbles in your wine then the name which stands out most for many would undoubtedly be Champagne. Though world famous and drunk by millions globally every day, Champagne is a very exclusive style of wine that is only produced from a classified region of France totalling just 34,000 or so hectares….

Bolney Wine Estate are a fine example of a winery of England that has the long and proud history, the most engaging and welcoming winery for tourists and locals with frequent events and of course amazing and award winning wines from their sparkling to their stills. A pioneer of the industry with five decades of…

Turn, turn, turn…beautiful! How many times did we hear this exclamation when listening to a commentator’s speech during a sporting competition? Think about acres of land coloured by a sea of flowers, winding paths bordered by majestic trees, quiet lagoon occasionally crossed by ancient stone bridges, sometimes inhabited by frightening alligators. The roar of the…

The UK wine industry is proving to be one of the fastest expanding wine regions in the world after seeing the biggest planting of vines on record this year. The industry’s trade body Wines of Great Britain (WineGB) has just released the latest planting figures confirming that around 3 million vines were planted this year…

Though in the shadow of the country’s most famous wine region, Champagne, there is still so very much to celebrate for France’s somewhat forgotten sparkling wine region of Crémant. Boasting over 10,000 hectares of vineyards and set out within varied regions of rich land across the country so to give a diversity in flavours, Crémant…

Many people love the idea of rosé Champagne and sparkling wines, it has that certain romantic edge over standard bruts or even vintages, usually costing that little bit more with many labels famous for their pink bubbly such as Champagnes labels Laurent Perrier’s cuvée rose and Ruinart’s rosé. How do you make rosé wines? For…

Where exactly is the Trento DOC wine region? Located in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of northern Italy, positioned just off the border with Austria, bordering Lake Garda too and is in fact the most northerly wine region of the country. Some 200km and just over a 2 hour 15 minute drive from Venice and its…

Will Germany be the new Champagne? Probably not, Champagne will always be the Champagne, which just cannot be copied in any other region of the world. But, in the last 10 years, the quality of German Sparklers has improved tremendously. Many vintners have put huge efforts and enthusiasm into producing the best ‘German Winzersekt“’ever and…