Wine Review: Joseph Cattin Cremant d'Alsace Brut

January is Sparkling Wine Month on TheWineStalker.net! Towards the end of 2014, while I was writing my three part series on sparkling wine (A Bubbly Biography - The Story of Sparkling Wine), I went to work and thought "wait... why don't we carry ANY Cremant?" I had never really thought about it before but, I guess because I was in the middle of a two month...

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Wine Review: Champagne Patrice Marc Grande Cuvée Brut Fleury-la-Riviere

January is Sparkling Wine Month on TheWineStalker.net! Trying to find information about this Champagne house is like trying to get my four year old daughter to eat anything but macaroni and cheese. But from the bottle I can tell you that the family owned Marc Champagne house has been around since 1683 and they're currently in their 12th generation. They're located...

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Wine Review: Segura Viudas Brut Rosé with Sushi

January is Sparkling Wine Month on TheWineStalker.net! I love rosé. It's a weakness of mine. I also love inexpensive Spanish Cava. My favorite food on the planet may be sushi, possibly only trumped by hardshell beef tacos. Wasabi is an old pal of mine, especially when sinuses need to be cleared. Then there's soy sauce. Oh my God, soy sauce. Sometimes I'll...

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William Kaufman on Champagne

January is Sparkling Wine Month on TheWineStalker.net! "Like the maturing of romance into a deeper human attachment, the making of Champagne is an art that becomes engrained in the lives of all who commit themselves. It must be conceived and created from raw materials with imagination, hard work and persistence. It doesn't just happen. It is a lifetime work....

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Wine Review: Mumm Napa Brut Prestige

January is Sparkling Wine Month on TheWineStalker.net! Back in 1976 the Champagne house of GH Mumm sent winemaker Guy Devaux to the United States of America. His mission was to find the best place in the country for making champagne style sparkling wines. He decided on Napa Valley and in 1983 he released the first wines of Domain Mumm, later to be named Mumm...

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Bad Influence

"Sometimes I'll check the other bottles around it just to see if it's been hanging out with bad influences" - The Wine Stal...

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Wine Review: Gancia Asti DOCG

January is Sparkling Wine Month on TheWineStalker.net! With my trilogy on the history of sparkling wine concluding last week you might see some sparkling reviews coming out. Oh look! Here's one now! And there will be more all month! So here it is... the original Asti. Sure, it's nothing like the version Carlo Gancia invented in 1870. Back then the carbonation...

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A Bubbly Biography - The Story of Sparkling Wine - Part 3: Sekt and the Future

January is Sparkling Wine Month on TheWineStalker.net! My trilogy on the history of sparkling wine concludes here. Part One: France and Spain was about the emergence of intentional carbonation, the creation of methode champenoise, and the people who made it happen. Part Two: Italy and The New World was about the charmat method, partial fermentation, and the people...

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Monday Phylloxera: The Reboot

Monday is a tiny aphid that attacks your rootstoc...

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January Wine Pick: Fitz-Ritter Riesling Extra Trocken Sekt

January is Sparkling Wine Month on TheWineStalker.net! This WINE PICK of the month was written for the Luke's of Cape Cod website. Trocken means dry in German and Sekt is the word used for sparkling wine in German-speaking countries. Thus, this offering is an Extra Dry sparkling wine. It's made from Riesling grapes...

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