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10 Champagnes & Sparkling Wines to put in your Christmas Trolley
Christmas for many is that time of year to get together with friends and loved ones. It’s the Christmas works party to let your hair down at and get to know that one person you’ve had your eye on. It’s fabulous television shows such as the suspense of what Christmas Eve will bring on Coronation…
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Let’s Explore Sparkling Rosé Wines from Europe
Europe holds a goldmine of wine production annually with 10,000’s of wineries and even more in styles to enjoy. Referred to usually as ‘old world wine‘, European countries sit in the northern hemisphere and many will have their own styles of wines produced from Portugal to Georgia. Names such as Barolo, Champagne, Franciacorta, Bordeaux, Cava,…
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Wine Tasting & Tour with Luxury Cream Tea
Escape into the Sussex countryside for a quintessentially English Cream Tea Wine Tasting and Tour. Bolney Wine Estate have a new Wine Tasting and Tour with Luxury Cream Tea includes a guided tour of their beautiful vineyard and estate in the Sussex countryside, followed by a wine tasting experience of five of their award-winning wines…
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Bolney Wine Estate Harvest 2020 – Perfect Weather
Bolney Wine Estate is located on the edge of the South Downs in Sussex, about 14 miles from the UK’s south coast and comprises of five unique vineyard sites. Perfect weather over lockdown has helped Bolney Wine Estate to produce a beautifully ripe crop of grapes. Which has led us to pick in excess of 235…
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English Wine Harvest 2020
We spoke to some of our award winning winemakers of English sparkling wine to see what the harvest has been like for them this year. Sam Lindo, winemaker at Camel Valley in Cornwall said they finished the harvest in record time. In fact, they finished before they normally start. “The quality was amazing, but the…
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50 Shades of Rosé Sparkling Wine Awards 2020
There is plenty that is irresistibly sexy about rosé sparkling wines and if we mix in Fifty Shades then we most certainly have a good pairing! Rosé sparkling wines are produced around the globe with many sparkling producing wineries having at least one to choose from via their collection of labels. We will also see…
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Chilli Paneer & Chingri Malai Curry with Sparkling Wine
It may surprise many that it isn’t necessarily beer that pairs best with Indian food! Most of the curry dishes that we consume in the UK have somewhat been westernised so to cater to our tastes and many of these dishes are served up at curry restaurants across the country. With dishes holding spices, savoury,…
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Interview with Gareth Davies Winemaker at Fitz
Fitz wanted to enter the English sparkling wine industry, but by trying something different, when Fitz first started every English sparkling wine was made using the traditional method, but Fitz didn’t want to make their Sparkling Wines that way, they wanted to create a different flavour, they wanted to give England and the rest of…
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Interview with Sam Lindo Winemaker at Camel Valley
Sam Lindo is the second generation winemaker at Camel Valley. Sam, a maths graduate who had seemed destined for a career in the city, instead decided to make his life in Cornwall and returned to the family farm, where he had grown up, in 2002. Son of founder Bob Lindo, a retired RAF pilot, who…
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