Champagne
19 April 2012 Filed in: Food & Wine Travel
Champagne. There is no other name or phrase in the whole world of wine that can generate the same response as enunciation of that single word: ‘Champagne’. Thoughts of celebration, images of carefree bounty, success, romance, good fellowship all bubble to the surface at the mention of it, just as surely as the bubbles in the wine itself. Read More...
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The House of Krug
Krugist(e): Noun, m/f, a lover of Krug champagne, completely besotted by the richness and depth of the style, regards other prestige cuvées, especially the ‘bling’ ones, with complete disdain, has a tendency to bore when speaking on the subject, recently worried that Krug has become more user friendly, less forbidding and, heaven forfend, more ‘popular’. Takes childish delight in telling friends that it does not rhyme with ‘jug’, it is Krug as in ‘Kroog’.
Classy Bubbles
23 February 2011 Filed in: Profiles News & Views
“Is champagne wine?” I am asked again and again. Of course it is and the good stuff is the result of one of the most painstaking and labour intensive production processes anywhere in the wine world.
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