Ah, Champagne, the Rolls Royce of the wine world. This radiant prestigious wine was developed from sparkling wine said to have been first discovered by Benedictine monks in 1531. The monks bottled some wine before the fermentation process had finished—a lucky mistake that resulted in a bubbly.
International Women’s day is a perfect opportunity to celebrate the successes and achievements of a number of brilliant women at the helm of innovative, sustainable and design-led premium wine estates.
The C-wordOkay, let’s be clear: sparkling wine can be any old fizz, but Champagne is always a particular sparkling wine made in a certain way and that can come only from the legally-delimited Champagne region of northern France. (Now, that should keep the Champagne lawyers happy.
As we've seen with the Irish summer over the last number of years, weather patterns are becoming more and more difficult to predict. We had one of our mildest winters, while Europe had one of their harshest in recent times.
On Wednesday we had the pleasure of welcoming Malcolm Davis from Duval Leroy to Ireland for the second time. Last time he visited he gave a champagne masterclass to a very privileged group in our shop, here in Cork.
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