Moët Hennessy has been internally referring to the bubbly boom as “the roaring 20s” and can barely keep up with demand.
Unless you are a thrill-seeker or someone who can carry out a Christmas shopping mission with efficiency and ease, now is the perfect time to get presents sorted.
Everybody knows that you can only call it champagne if it comes from the French region of Champagne. Everyone except Vladimir Putin, that is.
‘Follow the Bubbles’ will see nine very special Franschhoek venues pairing up with a Cap Classique house or two for a session of fabulous tasting, along with delicious food, live music, and loads of fun.
Take ‘happy hour’, make it ‘happy hours’, throw some half-price bubbly into the mix, and you have the recipe for the perfect Friday.
All is not well between those who grow the grapes and those who turn them into the world-famous bubbly.
Once you grow up and stop drinking in public parks there is a certain decorum one is expected to display when sipping back on the bubbly. We’re offering you these friendly words of advice.
It’s time to pop open the good stuff and the thirsty crowd gathers. No pressure, but if you botch this there will be many unhappy faces pointed in your direction. Here’s how you nail it.
We get that you’re happy to win a Grand Prix race, Lewis, but you had to know this celebration would land you in hot water as you did it right?
There’s nothing quite like donning your best black and white outfit (accompanied this year by a parasol or Panama hat) and hitting up a day of bubbly drinking in the summer sun… go forth and try it!
It’s a short work week. Which means that you’re highly likely to be drinking bubbles this coming Friday. So you might as well do it properly. And by properly, we mean by sabrage. What is sabrage? I’m so glad you asked: The opening of a bottle, normally of champagne, by slicing off the bottle’s neck with […]
Great news from 2oceansvibe’s preferred bubbly, Boschendal – it looks like we’re being treated to the immediate release of the 2007 Grande Cuvée Brut. With the 2006 singled our as the only 4½ star MCC (Méthode Cap Classique) amongst the top performing wines of 2010 rated by Wineland Magazine’s Watterwyn panel of experts. So I’d say […]