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Budget Sparkling White Wines to Toast the New Year

24 December 2011
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The clock is chiming midnight, the strains of Auld Lang Syne are echoing around the room and glasses of Champagne are being raised to toast the New Year. Sounds familiar? But how many glasses of Champagne are likely to be raised to welcome in 2012 when so many people are cash-strapped and the financial forecasts [...]

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Wolf Blass Pinot Noir Chardonnay Sparkling Brut 2008

9 September 2011
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Putting the ‘sham’ in Champagne, Wolf Blass is one of many, many winemakers worldwide defying the French AOC’s entitlement to the holy grail of sparkling wine grape combinations and giving it a go themselves. And why not? With a birth in the family in recent weeks we’ve been popping more corks than we normally have [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 6: A Sound Like A Contented Lady

8 April 2011
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Read Part 5 on our sister site RedWine.co.uk. Sparkling wine, sweet wine, Sherry and Port; also known as ‘other’, if not ‘misc’. I was surprised, but not especially bothered, that rosé wines don’t seem to have featured at all in our tastings yet, but that’s fine – I know what they taste like, and about once a [...]

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Austerity Wines

11 March 2011
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There’s nothing like a huge economic downturn for making people rethink their spending habits, but that’s not to say that the nationwide belt-tightening has led us Brits to give up the finer things in life, like white wine, altogether. Rather, it seems we have had a collective dwell on how we can continue to sip [...]

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Cono Sur Sparkling Brut NV

17 November 2010
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Chile is known for their cool climate varietals, most notably sauvignon blanc for the whites and carmenere for the red table wines but I recently had a sparkler from Cono Sur that certainly knocked my socks off. I was tasting Cono Sur’s wines with the winemaker and globe trotting ambassador of Cono Sur, Adolfo Hurtado. [...]

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