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Champagne and celebrity chefs, the perfect match?
As competition in the sparkling wine category intensifies, now, more than ever, Champagne is having to fight for its slice of the UK on-trade, with celebrity chefs emerging as the culinary champions of its cause. Lauren Eads reports
Extract: Brut Force by Peter Stafford-Bow
In the People’s Book Prize finalist Peter Stafford-Bow’s second novel, Brut Force, Felix Hart returns and is caught between a blackmailing luxury goods corporation and a gang of organic wine fanatics. Read on for the first extract…
The Crazy Bear Clubhouse launches first Lanson Lounge
The Crazy Bear Group is launching the world’s first dedicated Champagne Lanson Lounge at its Crazy Bear Clubhouse, featuring the producer’s entire prestige range including a magnum of the 1988 vintage for £1,119.95.
Hot tip: The Grape Takeover at Monica Galetti’s Mere Restaurant
Dinner at Mere restaurant, hosted by Austrian wine make Schloss Gobel
Gosset creates new cuvée with Marcus Wareing
The oldest house in Champagne, Gosset, has teamed up with Michelin-starred British chef Marcus Wareing on a bespoke blend for his restaurants.
Bejwelled £115,000 Rare Champagne launched
Piper-Heidsieck has launched a super rare edition of its prestige cuvée Rare adorned with hundreds of tiny diamonds, which has gone on sale at Harrods with a £115,000 price tag.
10 of the world’s most disgusting foods
A museum dedicated to challenging perceptions of food and what society deems “disgusting” has opened in Sweden, showcasing stomach-churning dishes such as maggot cheese, bull penis and mouse wine.
Christie’s to offer Latour winemaker’s collection in London
Auction house Christie’s is to offer a “spectacular” collection of Château Latour from the collection of the first growth’s former winemaker Denis Malbec in London next month.
Guilty pleasures: Yann Prigent
In the latest installment of our Guilty Pleasures series, in association with Côtes du Rhône Wines, we chat game birds and the joys of Côtes du Rhône Villages with head sommelier of The Bleeding Heart Group, Yann Prigent.
California’s 2018 harvest ‘played out like a dream’
California’s 2018 harvest “played out like a dream” for winegrowers across the state, according to the 2018 harvest report from California Wines, thanks to a long growing season and moderate temperatures throughout the spring and summer.
