A sparkling start to Day 5 of the Landmark Tutorial with two extremely experienced winemakers: consultant Dr Tony Jordan (Domaine Chandon, Cloudy Bay, Cape Mentelle, most recently the Estates...

English sparkling wine really does seem to have a head of steam (carbon dioxide?) behind it at the moment, with upbeat reports on the rise of its popularity emerging on all sides. You may have...

Yesterday I described Trento - Italy's overlooked fizz . Nearly 60 tasting notes follow, listed alphabetically by producer name (not including words such as Cantina). See Jancis on a blind...

Walter's tasting notes on nearly 60 examples of these useful sparkling wines follow. And see my reviews of a number of top English sparkling wines (and some still ones) on...

See also Some fine sparklers for more recommendations. All of the first quarter of my top 100 wines really sparkle. These 25+ are listed upwards in price with selected UK...

I've been hoarding tasting notes on various fizzes tasted in the last couple of months and here they are, together with a range of champagnes and sparkling wines from UK online retailer Champagne...

From €11.40,  $19.97, £13.17, 2,990 yen Find this wine I was absolutely entranced by this wine when I tasted it in a line-up of assorted fizzes recently. Jacky Blot explains the...

I wonder if English sparkling now needs its own appellation? Ridgeview once had the idea of using the word Merret to identify English effervescents, and used the term on their labels for many...

See full tasting notes and scores for all 58 wines on Purple pages. Just as I was about to set off for the biggest blind tasting ever of superior English sparkling wine against its...

The following is organiser Stephen Skelton's own report on the tasting I report on in English fizz v the rest, tasting notes . The tasters A stellar line-up of tasters (in...

We all know what an urban myth is. Is there such a thing as a rural myth? If so, then the view commonly peddled in the British press that France's champagne producers are stealthily buying up land...

15 Dec   - Please note that all these wines are now available online from the Little Wine Club , and should be out of bond by the end of this week. I promised in this thread on our...

Below are my recommended fizzy buys for the holiday season. Prices and stockists given are for the UK and I have tried to sniff out the best prices and the bargains, but those living outside the...

For reviews of nearly 70 current English wines, see  tasting notes As May Day is celebrated and England is looking its most delightful, awash with mayblossom, it is also awash with its...

The 'news' that Nyetimber, an English sparkling wine, had supposedly beaten Champagne Bollinger in a blind tasting organised in Italy, was picked up by the British wine media, and consequently...