A quick Franciacorta study
Franciacorta is Italy’s premier region for sparkling wines. It’s an old region that reinvented itself around bubbles in the 1960s.
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Sparkling wine
Highlights: Fizzy Bum Bum Pet Nat 2019 Cornwall, England
Few will get to try this micro-production wine, but I wanted to include it here, because it shows how good
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Méthode Cap Classique Report
Goode and Ring report on South Africa’s most vibrant wine category: MCC (for Méthode Cap Classique, the name used for
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Rathfinny, one of England’s top sparkling wine producers
It has been 10 years since Mark and Sarah Driver first bought the land that is now Rathfinny Estate, one
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Review: Christie’s World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine
This is the new (2019) edition of the most comprehensive guide to sparkling wine, a category that’s exciting at the
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Highlights: Wiston Blanc de Blancs 2015 England
Another really impressive sparkling wine from England. The vineyard is 6.5 hectares planted in 2006, on chalk soils of the
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Highlights: Black Chalk Classic 2016 Hampshire, England
Black Chalk began life as a side-gig for Hattingley Valley winemaker Jacob Leadley. It was a joint venture with his
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Video: disgorgement à la volée
This is a fun video of an inpromptu disgorgement. It’s known as disgorgement à la volée (flying disgorgement), and it’s
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Highlights: two sparkling wines from Fitzpatrick, Okanagan, Canada
Fitzpatrick Fitz Blanc de Blanc 2015 Okanagan, Canada12% alcohol. The Fitzpatrick family owned Cedar Creek, and when they sold to
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Highlights: three special editions from Hush Heath, England
This is a special edition trio of wines from Kent-based winery Hush Heath, with each wine being a personal project
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