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…
The best way to experience wine is of course going to the source – a vineyard. However while in Zagreb recently I found the perfect solution for someone who doesn’t have the time to get out to the wine roads but wants to taste some great Croatian wines in the perfect setting. The House of…
It’s a place where you get 300 days of sun a year and where winemaking dates back to the time of the Roman’s in 123 B.C. It’s the Island of Mallorca, an 8-hour ferry ride from Barcelona or Valencia. With the statuesque gothic cathedral at the gateway of the island it is as simple as…
After perhaps a not so profitable tasting day in Narbonne I decided to hit Carcassonne with gusto. One of my favourite memories here has to be of La Cité at dusk – absolutely stunning and a carafe of vino and wild boar casserole followed this. Yum! So after sending a few e-mails out we decided…
Greetings everyone from Egypt! So our trip has finally started and we are 5 days into our stay in the land of the pharaohs. After getting over the initial shock of the dirt, rubbish, beggars and such of Cairo – we are having an amazing time. Unbeknown to me we have learnt that Egypt actually…
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…
The Nouveau wine movement began over 100 years ago in France’s Beaujolais region (just south of where the beautiful Pinot’s and Chardonnay’s from Burgundy are grown). The easy-drinking, quick maturing wine was initially made by winemakers to celebrate the end of harvest with their employees. The result is Beaujolais Nouveau – released the 3rd Thursday of…