Friday. 29 April. 2011. 10:30 am
Royal tipple.
Everyone will be watching the Royal Wedding of HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton today so we thought it be fitting that we share this little nugget of info. Want to know what the royal couple will be pouring during the wedding banquet? Pol Roger French Champagne and apparently a non vintage has specifically been requested by the Palace. Decanter broke the story last week and lucky for royal fans, you can get it here in Hong Kong! There’s our little contribution to the Royal Wedding. Enjoy!
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Friday. 18 February. 2011. 10:41 am
Attend a blind tasting of fine wines next week.
The Jebsen Fine Wine Club will be hosting a blind tasting of 10 bottles of some of their finest wines on 24 February where, as a guest, you’ll be able to taste one of Champagne’s rarest and most iconic wines – the Bollinger’s Vielles Vignes Françaises 2000. Only a few thousand bottles are made each year from Pinot Noir grafted onto pre-phylloxera rootstocks in Ay and Bouzy.
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Monday. 26 July. 2010. 9:26 am
Oldest drinkable champagne discovered at the bottom of the sea.
Divers exploring a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea have found bottles of the oldest drinkable champagne in the world. Said to be made in the 18th century, diver Christian Ekstrom told Reuters that they had discovered bottles of unmarked champagne at the shipwreck in the Baltic Sea near the Aland Islands between Sweden and Finland. The ship was speculated to be sailing to St.Petersburg when it went down. Not knowing what the bottle contained, Ekstrom said the divers popped the cork and tasted the champagne. “It tasted fantastic. It was a very sweet champagne, with a tobacco taste and oak,” Ekstrom said.
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Wednesday. 10 February. 2010. 9:59 am
Enjoy some amazing champagne with Winebuzz.hk just in time for CNY.
Excuse us for this really big image of Luxor Brut champagne, but we need it that size so you can see the real 24 Carat Gold flakes swimming around inside in what must be the most decadent bottle of champagne you are going to see as we enter the Year of the Tiger!
Winebuzz.hk in co-operation with Bacchus Asia have ten 75 cl bottles of this rare champagne left to buy by the end of business on Friday, so we can get it to you before the Lunar New Year.
There are only 1,000 bottles of this unique champagne made a year, enjoyed by the likes of Mickey Rourke, Christian Audigier and Tony Parker. It’s a sure-fire conversation starter at your Chinese New Year party and can be yours at a very special price!
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Thursday. 3 December. 2009. 6:29 pm
What better way to celebrate the holidays than with a nice bottle of bubbly.
Champagne is named for the region where its grapes are grown – Champagne in France – invented accidentally by a monk called Dom Perignon (yes, that was his name!). This bubbly wine is literally that…a sparkling white wine. True champagne must come from the region in France; everything else is merely sparkling wine and not the beverage that’s often favoured to ring in the New Year.
Located approximately one hundred miles from Paris, Champagne consists of five different wine districts and vintages, falling into five different categories: Extra Brut, Brut, Extra dry, Sec and Demi-sec, which denote sweetness. Celebrating with champagne is a time-honored tradition that dates back many years. In ancient Rome, it was customary to celebrate events with the best in food and drink, and, what’s more luxurious than champagne? The same tradition goes back to Russia and Spain, which also includes eating twelve grapes to ring in the New Year!
Why not enjoy a few celebratory bubbles to pop into 2010 with a bang? Jacquesson Cuvee No.732 N.V. is a sparkling, sweet vintage made with 52% chardonnay, 24% pinot noir and 24% pinot meunier and retailing for around HK$498.
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