Monthly Archive: January 2010

Jan
26

Pink champagne

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Some people love it and some not;  I am in the love category.  A great luscious rose with plenty of fizz, dry but not bone dry – perfect. Love it so much, in fact, that we had it at our wedding reception – with our own personalised label of course – twelve years ago;  pioneers …

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Jan
15

Personalised champagne

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At the beginning of 2009 (and for the 14 years before), Park Lane was all about “private label champagne” or “own brand champagne” or maybe even “own label champagne”;  never “personalised champagne”. As the year unfurled, so it became obvious that “personalised champagne” is what people think of when they want their own champagne – …

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Jan
04

A new decade

Winter chill

So 2010 has dawned and with it a new decade;  Happy New Year to one and all. There seems to be a tone of optimism in the air – certainly it is being peddled by the UK media.  It makes a change, certainly, from the steady trickle of gloom in 2009 (and on that note …

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