Champagne This year we toasted the new year with a bottle of one of our favorites – Perrier Jouet Brut. Every now and then you serve a wine that you’ve had many times but for some unknown reason the bottle you’ve just opened is far better than any of the others. That was our experience [...]
10 Wines for Your New Year’s Celebration What’s not to love about Champagne? It goes with every type of food, it’s perfect all by itself and it makes any occasion special. Going into the next decade of the 21st century certainly calls for a drink – of something special! Cheers! Top 5 Best Selling Champagnes [...]
World’s Oldest Champagne In July, divers began salvaging the wreckage of the two-masted schooner Jönköpin that was sunk by the Germans off the Finnish coast in 1916. (Read about it here) What was the treasure they were seeking? 4400 bottles of 1907 Heidesieck Champagne “Goût Americain”, 67 large barrels of Cognac and 17 regular barrels [...]
Traditional Pairings Lately, it seems like whenever you ask an expert for wine pairing recommendations for turkey or chicken they encourage you to try Pinot Noir or syrah. Yes, they both can go wonderfully with turkey, but because there are syrahs that are more powerful than some Cabernets and some Pinots that are too sweet [...]
Cocktail Time You may have noticed the shelves of your favorite wine emporium (or big box store) have been stocking their shelves with more champagne to get ready for the holiday season. While the weather is still on the balmy side we don’t have to think about the holidays in order to enjoy some bubbly. [...]
Time to Stock Up on Champagne According to the New York Times wine critic, Eric Asimov, there are now some pretty good Champagnes in the $30 to $40 range. A panel of experts, including Asimov, set up blind tasting of 20 Champagnes under $40 and found some seriously good wine. This is quite a change [...]
Champagne The holiday rush, those weeks from November to New Year’s Eve, is when the Champagne houses reap most of their annual profits. Americans are the second-largest drinkers of Champagne – outside France. Shipments of the bubbly to the United States plummeted 41.2 % this year – yet sales of cheaper sparkling wines – typically [...]
Caviar With the holiday season upon us, many of us will enjoy Thanksgiving feasts, followed by Christmas and New Years parties. Chances are, if it’s a dressy affair, they’ll serve caviar. This has always been one my favorite little indulgences. Big, Old Fish The majority of the world’s caviar comes from the Caspian Sea. Russia, [...]
Champagne Grapes Will Rot as Producers Protect Prices By Adam Sage – TimesOnline Hopes of a glut of cheap champagne are set to be dashed when vineyards meet next week to agree on a big cut in production to prop up prices. With sales falling, producers may be ordered to leave up to half their [...]
English Sparkling Wine Taking on French Champagne For the first time since the reign of Henry the Second, England has become a bulk exporter of wine. Some say the effects of global warming are bringing hotter summers and a longer growing season. But the real reason is improved oenological expertise, carefully sourced French vines and [...]
