First day’s judging at the Sparkling Wine Review is underway her at Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey. It’s a completely new sort of benchmarking exercise, and we’re very excited about…
A sparkling ice wine – remarkable!
This is a crazy, crazy wine, but it really works. It’s a sparkling ice wine. Inniskillin Vidal Sparkling Ice Wine 2006 Niagara Peninsula, Canada 9% alcohol. Made like an ice…
The Sparkling Wine Review
I’m involved with an exciting new project: the Sparkling Wine Review. It’s a benchmarking exercise for sparkling wines, and this November will see its debut. Producers from around the world send in…
Some serious English Fizz: Ridgeview Cavendish 2007
This is brilliant stuff. At the Oddbins mixed case price of £16 it’s really good value; it’s certainly worth the regular £20 price. One to serve to those who haven’t…
Petaluma Croser 2006 Adelaide Hills
Aussie fizz can be really good, as the sparkling wine session at last year’s Landmark Australia Tutorial showed. This is one of Australia’s more ambitious sparklers, and it’s quite impressive,…