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French Bubbles, London

French Bubbles offers a small collection of grower Champagnes.

French Bubbles’ is an artisanal collection of fine quality, limited-production Grower Champagnes with personality and heritage. The carefully sourced selection of 16 different Champagnes, have all been produced by award-winning, family-owned producers committed to creating quality wines from their own vineyards.

Passionate about Champagne, French [...]

Henry George Wines, West Sussex

Henry George Wines is a specialist online independent wine merchant focusing on a small number of family-grower Champagnes.

It was our introduction, in the early nineties, to Laurent Champs, who now runs Champagne Vilmart, that made us realise that there’s more to Champagne than the big names that we’re all so familiar with.

Our knowledge of  champagne growers, and [...]

February offers from Majestic

Majestic Wine Warehouses are offering some new discounts for February 2009:

20% off Portuguese Wine when you buy any 2 Portuguese wines 25% off South African Wine when you buyany 2 SA wines 10% off Spirits when you buy any 2 bottles of spirits 50% off some Champagnes and Sparkling wines

Marco do Pegões [...]

Silk and Lace pre-Valentine’s tasting in London

The Winery in London W9 is holding a pre-Valentine tasting on 11 February 2009 at Clifton Nurseries

Our theme is silk and lace, which means there’ll be plenty of Pinot Noir, beginning with our two sparklies – a pink from Cantina di Casteggio in Oltrepo Pavese, south of Milan and the classic, Pinot-heavy [...]

Decanter’s French Wine Extravaganza Tasting

Decanter Magazine has established a reputation for mounting some of the best serious wine tasting opportunities – the success comes from getting some of the very best chateaux to attend, and offering visitors the opportunity to taste some of the best wines, talk to the producers and attend some specialised seminars to learn from [...]

Yapp’s new website

I make no secret of the fact that Yapp Bros have always been my idea of the almost perfect independent wine merchant – great enthusiasts and knowledgeable specialists in specific regions (especially outside Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne) – yet with an informal and approachable style, a fun but informative wine list/website AND taking risks [...]

Discounts on Champagne and Sparkling Wine at Vin Vino

Online wine merchant Vin Vino is offering some interesting discounts until 31 Dec 2008 when you use some special codes on the order:-

10% off all Champagne – use the special code Champers

8% off all Sparkling Wines – use the special code Sparkling

And spend more than £200 and get a £25 discount [...]

Champagne from Newcastle – Lovely Bubbly

Somehow you don’t expect to stumble across a purveyor of fine Champagne based in North-East England – Champagne seems almost too ephemeral for the down-to-earth Geordies, more suitable for sipping by the Thames at Henley than by the Tyne at Jarrow!

So how wrong can you be – let’s not forget that Newcastle has [...]

Roberson, London – no ordinary wine merchant

On numerous visits to various exhibitions at London’s Olympia in West Kensington I would indulge in 2 diversions – firstly the Bristol car showroom (368 Kensington High St) where James Bond- style sports cars were on display looking fine, polished, elegant and very desirable!

Almost next door was the second treat at Roberson Wine [...]

French Wine offers at Waitrose

The French Wine Festival at Waitrose (online and in its stores) runs from 26 March to 27 April 2008 and will feature a total of 48 wines.

Waitrose will be featuring 13 specially sourced small parcel wines from a wide range of less well-known appellations like Quincy, Bergerac, Provence and Lirac and the [...]