If I could only choose one drink to drink the rest of my life it would have to be Champagne. Those shimmering bubbles of happiness are just so darn good that I just can’t say no. Champagne is my heaven however you’ll also see me sipping on everything from Spanish Cava to Italian Prosecco and…
Can I have Champagne with breakfast? I love breakfast. It’s a meal, which is totally acceptable to be either sweet or savoury. And breakfast is the perfect excuse to sip on wine at such am early hour of the day. Whoever came up with the idea of a Champagne breakfast is a total legend in…
The city of love….. I have to admit that we really did fall in love with the city when we found out our 2-star hotel was a 5-minute walk from the station we were to arrive into after 8.5hours of travel that day! Our hotel – Le Terrage was your standard budget hotel: equipped with…
The Champagne house of Charles Mignon is an easy 10-minute walk from the Epernay train station. We were lucky enough to be shown around the facility by the Winemaker himself – Fabian Daviaux. Although the house is on the small side, they actually have another facility on the other side of Epernay, which helps them…
The beauty of visiting Champagne is that it’s literally two steps from Paris. You can take the 40-minute TGV train from Paris Est or like I did the 1 hour 15 minute regional train (since I have a Eurail pass it means I don’t have to pay for a reservation on the regional trains unlike…
I admit it – I don’t have any patience. This is why my cellar is under lock and key 14,204km away from where I am. So far this technique is working and I am slowly starting to build up a nice collection of bottles. However recently I was given a bottle of the illustrious Dom…
Other than the cool-factor of bringing out a larger than normal size bottle of vino among friends there are various reasons why one should opt for the Super-size-bottle next time while vino shopping. Here are a few pointers on why big bottles are so great, literally… and how you should handle them.. Magnum means ‘great’…
I heart Champagne, it is the one drink I would choose to be locked in a room with and still feel happy even under the dire circumstances of no light, food or company. It is the drink of celebrations, and those beautiful tiny little diamonds streaming up from the bottom of the glass are the…
Okay so if you saw a sommelier in a restaurant pouring your Champagne out as if it was a beer, you may be a tad worried of his/her skills, but fret not – a study by the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry has shown that this is the perfect way to pour Champagne in order to…