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Meinklang, Prosa Rosé Frizzante 2024 Österreich
A magical sparkling wine from Austria, from €9, £15.50, $16.95. It is, some say, the time when magic is strongest … the summer solstice, when the fairy folk come and...
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A round winemaking peg in a round hole… See Cristal 2013 back to 1988 for details of the tasting where...
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Lovely wines – but all too mysterious for both taster and cook.
Towards the end of last year, I had...
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After Sam’s fruitless search for a sparkling-wine benchmark in California comes this rather more fruitful one. Dr Konstantin Frank's bottles...
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A very varied collection of some of the best. Above, remuage examined at Roederer.
Students of wine, especially those of...
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Two books on sparkling wine don't quite go head to head – one focusing on sparkling wine all around the...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times . More detailed tasting notes on Purple Pages, many...
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There's everything here from the cheapest and quite cheerful fizz (in the Other group below) to the most sumptuous of...
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Word of the day: penina . Slovenian sparkling wine. Double score on new language skills and new wine discoveries.
I...
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Numbers are becoming more and more significant in Champagne. But there are many non-champagnes among these 86 tasting notes on...
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Many an established name in English sparkling wine, tasted blind – with a few champagnes. See also part 1 in...
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Ladders, shutdowns, mountain parking, a dislocated shoulder, quarantines … all in a day's work for Jardín Oculto. A slightly shorter...
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Tim Hall of Scala Wine, an avid Champagne-watcher, gives the low-down on Russia's recent wine-labelling diktat.
On 2 July, while...
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A look at just a slice of what English winemakers are up to. A version of this article is published...
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We continue our preview of English Wine Week (19–27 June) with a look at multiple sparkling wines. Above, harvest at...
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Our second southern France wine round-up is mostly pink, with a handful or two of sparkling wines and just three...
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'Frivolous' fizz from a serious producer, to celebrate spring, coming out of lockdown (in the UK anyway, at last), being...
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