The most important thing you need to know about Elizabeth Schneider is not that she is a Certified Sommelier nor a Certified Specialist of Wine but a woman who knows how to spot a great wine and why some do smell a little bit like goat poo. She is a wine educator that holds your…
Yesterday I had my first Gold Class movie experience when I went to see The Avengers. It is an awesome idea: lazy boy seats, food and drink brought to you at different points throughout the movie. What more could you ask, it’s the ideal way to watch a movie. As I was sipping on my…
I would love to be the person who has the time and resources to visit each and every winery in the world. There are so many good ones out there and to be honest we probably don’t know about half of them. Siegbert Bimmerle is the owner of Bimmerle Wines in Baden Germany. His vineyard…
In celebration of the leap year, here are 29 things you should do today (well maybe try at least one, some are a touch outrageous!). It only comes around every 4 years after all. 1. Goon Bag of Fortune. Attach two wine bladders (from the wine-in-a-box) to the clothesline at opposite sides. Everyone stands in…
It’s hard to mention German wines without thoughts of Riesling popping into your head. It is an amazing grape that produces wildly diverse styles of wine, everything from bone-dry to luscious sweet tipples. It is the queen of German wines that sometimes hides us from the other delectable goodies coming out of this great land….
Following on from my February 6th article, about Cava Berdie, I have to recognize another bodega whose seductive Spanish suave swayed me to the Cava side of life last summer. You, me and the guy next door are all looking for a way to stand out from the crowd and to shout ‘I am unique’, its…
To be honest, I don’t know a whole lot about English wine other than drips and drabs on some of their sparkling wines that have emerged on the international wine scene over the last few years. My first lesson was not making the mistake of calling it British wine, which is wine made in Britain…
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…