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10 Champagne facts to impress your friends with
To celebrate National Champagne Day today, we’ve rounded-up 10 little-known facts about the world’s most famous sparkling wine, from how many bubbles you’ll find in a flute to the accidental creation of rosé Champagne.
Record year: English and Welsh wine producers comment on 2018 vintage
With record volumes of grapes harvested across the board, we round up the reports from owners and winemakers in a year that could see as many as 18 million bottles of wine produced in the UK.
Top 8 extreme restaurants
While a bricks and mortar Michelin-starred venue might be enough to sate most appetites for culinary exploration, these restaurants are in another league, offering the adventurous foodie an extreme dining experience.
Aymeric Pollenne crowned world’s best somm by Rôtisseurs
French-born, London-based, Hide employee Aymeric Pollenne has been declared International Young Sommelier 2018 by the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs.
1963 Noval beats Petrus and DRC in London sale
Two sales held by Sotheby’s in London this week netted a combined £2,785,385, underpinned by Bordeaux and Burgundy but with a case of rare Port trumping Petrus and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti to be the auction’s highest-selling lot.
Res Fortes winemaker buys Domaine de l’Arpege
Moritz Bak, the winemaker of Res Fortes in Roussillon, has acquired Domaine de l’Arpege in the southern French region, giving his production a serious boost.
Unfiltered: Neleen Strauss, High Timber
Neleen Strauss, the formidable owner of South African city spot High Timber, on serving Oprah Winfrey, the joy of a plate of anchovies with a glass of Albarino, and an altercation with a Texan with a knack for opening a bottle of wine with a handgun.
Bowie-themed bar to open at London’s Hotel Café Royal
London’s Hotel Café Royal is opening a bar dedicated to David Bowie, paying homage to his alter ego Ziggy Stardust, who he bid a fond farewell to at the hotel in 1973.
Fine wine investment: Rising Burgundies
One of the questions arising from last week’s note on the narrowing of first growth and second label price differentials is not simply whether it will continue but, for those of a more speculative inclination, where else it might manifest itself. Burgundy perhaps?
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