Tag Archive: Champagne

Mar
26

Champagne o’clock

Champagne Vineyard Map

Strange how taste is influenced by so many different factors – but our mood must be one of the most significant.  The sun comes out, the days get longer and the mind immediately turns to summer, to parties and to champagne. Champagne is a wine like any other and different champagnes suit our different moods …

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Jan
19

Champagne Charlie’s Champagne Diet

Champagne Charlie

Here she is – back slimmer and trimmer in this Olympic year thanks to her advocating the switch to champagne but which may only aid weight loss as part of a calorie controlled diet… Don’t have a dry January, have extra dry champagne. According to Madame Pompadour, the chief mistress of Louis XV, champagne leaves …

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Apr
08

Champagne Beginnings

MGB under the tunnel coming home

It’s all starting! A visit last week to Champagne, en route back from Burgundy (which is entirely another story), showed those very first new shoots and buds forming.  Interestingly, the georgaphy of the region was underlined as the vineyards in Champagne were definitely three to five days behind those in Burgundy.  The pictures of this …

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Mar
21

First Day Of Spring

Same date every year and here it is – 21st of March. Daffodils are in bloom and suddenly the early rays of spring sunshine bring hope across the board. And so it is in Champagne.   Assemblage – the blending of the different still wines to create the particular house style is now complete in most …

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Feb
14

Saint Valentine

Petals on the pillow, chocs in the bath or champagne on ice?  However it was for you, I hope that today has tickled that frisson of excitement that comes from being in love or being loved – whether it is a fifty year marriage or a hopeful start to new romance. Personalised champagne has featured …

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