Archive for the ‘Champagne’ Category
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
There are a lot of chic events, to which one is sufficient for himself and his guests like a high-quality alcoholic beverage such as champagne. The world famous and very popular sparkling wine is grown exclusively in the French region of Champagne, and can call itself only with this specific origin as such. Since the name is protected by trademark law is strict, for example in Germany produced sparkling wine called champagne only.
The champagne is generally regarded as the noblest and most festive drink and wearing due to its unique high-quality and distinctive taste of its not free its high price. Both for cultivation and for the manufacture of high-profile drink very strict quality standards. So for the Champagne may only be used three different varieties. These are the two red grape varieties Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier and a white grape, Chardonnay.
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Seasoned wine guru’s (and those who want to be) agree: The standing storage of wine is worse than the violation of basic principles of wine care. Wine bottles must lie in order to prevent leakage and drying out the cork.
On closer inspection is becoming apparent that the horizontal storage of the bottles in each case the best possible form of storage. Studies indicate that wines in cellars with enough humidity (over 60%), stored for long periods standing, barely develop differently than lying.
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Saturday, June 11th, 2011
For lovers of wine, a champagne tasting will look slightly different than a still wine because the bubbles disrupt our usual protocols.
It is not unusual to have an adjustment period, having a little trouble knowing how to approach the tasting of Champagne as wine.
Here are some tips to enjoy the champagne as wine.
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
The champagne is a sparkling wine from the region of Champagne (France), which is very popular in the world. So much so, that many countries have made efforts to get similar wines to market and deal with the French competition.
There are traces of it from the Tertiary had vineyards in the Champagne region and is used for wine, since then, until the arrival of the Celts, continued with this tradition, but from the year 57 BC, when Julius Caesar invades Gaul and the Romans settled in this region, settling in her noble and starting with the traditional culture of the vine. It then comes the champagne.
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
In 2011 the Austrians for champagne and wine will have to dig deeper into their pocket. “Due to the poor harvest to expect a price increase of five to 15 percent,” Gerhard Wohlmuth of wine and spirits trade of Commerce said on Monday.
“We do have a strong crop failure,” Wohl said on Monday. The producers therefore need to raise prices. Austria Far grape prices have risen by as much as “more than 100 percent.”
Especially in Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland and Styria have been hit by crop failures. “The grape harvest brings in average years, about 2.4 to 2.6 million hectoliters, this year there were only 1.75 million hectoliters,” said Wohl.
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Salon – one of the smallest of the great champagne houses, which began on 1 hectare vineyard, purchased in 1911 by a charismatic figure named Eugene Aimé Salon. Having time to visit this teacher, fur trader and a lot of someone else, who made million capital, Salon decided to do a winemaker, making wine, what was not.
It is not difficult to reconstruct his motivation – being a frequenter of restaurants and a connoisseur of the finest French wines, Beauty felt in the wine for it is a niche – he can create something totally unique, wine of unsurpassed quality and extraordinary properties. The idea is to create a wine that firstly, on the basis of only one Chardonnay and, secondly, only during the best harvests. In the not very brilliant years to make wine, he did not want.
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Monday, November 1st, 2010
Bollinger – another wine from Olympus with the best wines of Champagne. Specialists – Robert Parker, Hugh Johnson, Dzhensis Robinson and many other wine critics with a worldwide reputation – include it in the top five in quality, along with Dom Perignon, Louis Roederer, Pol Roger and Krug. And especially critics distinguish brand Bollinger Grande Année (Bollinger great year of harvest), identifying it to the most elite brands, with impeccable quality.
All other fans of champagne, paying tribute to taste Bollinger, know and remember this wine is still a favorite beverage of James Bond, which he very aristocratic view sipping almost half of the twenty-odd movies James Bond. On the eve of the premiere of new film with Daniel Craig Bollinger company decided to support this association – Bollinger – James Bond” – releasing a limited edition champagne, just 207 bottles. In steel case in the form of a bullet, engraved “Bollinger 007 placed a bottle of Bollinger Grande 1999.
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Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Founded in 1849, Paul Roger, Champagne Pol Roger house remained in family ownership, opposing the general process of mergers and acquisitions of small family-owned large holdings such as LVMH. And today the House is controlled by two great-grandsons of its founder, dobivshmisya in honor of his grandfather, even changing his name – now she’s written with a hyphen – Paul Roger.
This is – one of the best companies Champagne and one of the best sparkling wines in the world. Robert Parker, chief wine critic of the world, appreciates it very enthusiastically: “If there is any one vintage Champagne Brut, which clearly can claim to be one of the greatest wines in the world, it is – Pol Roger.
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Friday, October 29th, 2010
Quality and endurance – so could be formulated creed champagne house Krug. Their strict and very conservative politics keeping wine for many years before releasing it for sale is almost incompatible with the pace of the modern world”, – shocked Robert Parker – “but fortunately, it provides the highest quality, maturity and complexity.”
These people do not chase for the numbers. House publishes annually about 100 thousand bottles a 300 (!) Times smaller than the volume of production mastodon market champagne – Moet & Chandon.
The area of vineyards, the company is extremely limited – only 20 ha, and she buys the best grapes from another 56 hectares of the best vineyards of Champagne. Mixture is fermented in small oak barrels and then aged in bottle at least 6-8 years. This provides a unique recognizable guilt complex taste and ability to further the noble aging in the bottle.
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Style labels MUMM easily remembered by a diagonal red ribbon – a symbol of the Legion of Honor – which graced his wine in 18 century one of the first owners of champagne at home. This logo marks immediately recognized on the shelves of wine shops, and commercials. And on the balloons, which the company likes to run for promotional purposes.
Generally, MUMM – this wine adrenaline, extreme sports, travel and discovery. Throughout the history of its existence GHMUMM sponsor various activities associated with technical breakthroughs and athletic achievements of mankind. Company slogan – “The courage and commitment to extraordinary discoveries.
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