Corks have been popping all over the world this week as the Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships hosted its Virtual Awards Week announcing a total of 37 trophies to the greatest sparkling wine producers from around the globe. The week kicked off announcing the Best in Class winners followed by the virtual audience being […]

  Congratulations to all our Best In Class Winners of 2020! “𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦, 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘐 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 ‘𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦’ 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵 […]

You are invited! Join us for the Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships Virtual Ceremony Week. Here is the link to the ceremonies on the Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships Youtube channel. See you there!

The world’s toughest and most prestigious sparkling wine competition, The Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2020 (CSWWC), is delighted to announce a “record breaking year” smashing the 1,000 entry mark! Every year the CSWWC receives entries from up to 30 different countries and in 2020 a total of 128 Gold & 237 Silver medals […]

For this week’s The Finest Bubble Instagram Live tasting Nick proposed a vintage comparison. It was fascinating to compare the excellent harvests 2012 and 2013, which both have a classic, racy character to them and have been left somewhat in the shadow of the much-hyped 2008. First some vintage details: 2012 The next exceptional vintage […]

Yayoi Kusama’s bubbly (or rather polka dotty) design contributes, but wow, what a wine the 2012 edition is! The ’new’ La Grande Dame was first created by chef de cave Dominique Demarville in 2008 as almost a blanc de noirs. But for the 2012 (an excellent harvest, a real contender to the 2008) La Grande […]

Billecart’s first 100% Meunier comes from Leuvrigny, Festigny and Venteuil in the Vallée de la Marne. Based on the 2014 vintage with 33% reserve wines, it has a lemon colour with golden tones. Clean and brightly fruity nose showing beautiful floral tones. Fermented in stainless stee only, the bouquet is appetisingl: jasmin, orangeblossom, lime and […]

First taste of Charles Heidsieck Blanc des Millenaires 2006. The sixth creation of Blanc des Millénaires combines fruit from four grand cru villages (Oger, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Cramant and Avize) with Chardonnay from the premier cru of Vertus. True to the sunny and warm year 2006, the wine comes with deep golden hued colour already upon […]

What is lightstrike in wine and why is everyone talking about it? Most of us will have rejected a wine because it was corked. But have you ever sent a bottle back because it tastes of light? Essi Avellan MW explains the increasingly topical issue of lightstrike. Read Essi Avellan’s article on cluboenelogique.com, published on […]