Why are there different shaped wine glasses?
There is a purpose behind the different types of wine glasses and the high majority are purely aimed to enhance the overall experience! Red wine should ideally be served in…
Category: Champagne
How dangerous is your Champagne?
There’s always something truly decadent and wonderful about opening a bottle of Champagne, the anticipation, the occasion; a great event or perhaps a treat. Yet Champagne and other sparkling wines…
Is there a ‘holy grail’ for food and wine pairing?
Having a dinner party and stressing about what wine to have with what dishes? Not sure where to start? Does it feel like a quest into the unknown? Well the…
It’s not just wine….. it’s M and S award winning wine!
Thursday saw Wine School of Excellence delivering another tutored wine tasting event for Marks and Spencer (M & S). This time we were in Beverley in South Yorkshire. The M…
Every year is a vintage year!!!
Every year is a vintage year!!!! The vintage year is the year a wine was produced and the characteristics of that particular year. In simple terms, all young wine is…
Beheading Champagne!
Opening a bottle of Champagne is always something to celebrate but watching a bottle being open with a sword is something else!!! Legend has it that during Napoleon’s crusades across…
Sadly it’s a wrap!!
Sadly it’s a wrap for our Champagne Tour June 2013. We’ve been; had fun; indulged in fabulous fine food and wine; drank amazing Champagnes; created fantastic memories; and made new…
A Champagne Pre-Tour Taster of a different kind!!!!
In preparation for our Champagne Tour in June 2013 we had been communicating daily with our guests. Just a couple of days before we left, we created this little ‘ditty’…
