How to Open Champagne Without Losing a Drop
Keep it cold, hold the cork, turn the bottle. The sommelier’s quiet method for opening Champagne, plus how to pour it, fix a stuck cork and which bottles to practise on.
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Cheese Board Wine Pairing: Five Cheeses, Five Bottles, One Board
Build the board around five cheese styles, pour the bottle each one wants, and keep one wine on the table that handles all of them.
Santé’s Holiday Gift Guide, Part One: For the Wine Lover
Santé’s holiday wine gift guide: showpiece bottles, glassware, decanters, books and experiences for the wine lover.
The Hotels That Earned MICHELIN Keys in Wine Country
The Michelin Key hotels in wine country, from Bordeaux and Burgundy to Napa: what the Keys mean and where to stay.
The Case for Buying Champagne Now
The case for buying Champagne before November: grower Champagne, new vintage releases and prestige cuvées worth stocking up on.
The Art of the Autumn Dinner Party
How to host an autumn dinner party: a four-course seasonal menu, the wine for every course, glassware, temperatures and timing.
Inside a Harvest: A Day in the Vines
What really happens during a wine harvest, from pre-dawn picking and the sorting table to the cellar and the end-of-harvest feast.
Stock the Cellar for Winter
What to buy in October to stock your wine cellar for the holidays and the years ahead, from house Champagne to bottles worth laying down.
Climate and the Calendar: When Harvest Starts in July
Picking now starts in July in parts of France. How climate change is reshaping the wine harvest, from styles and grapes to appellation rules.
The Truffle Pairing Rulebook
Truffle wine pairing, explained: white vs black truffles, the dishes, and why Barolo, aged Champagne and white Burgundy are the wines to pour.
Oyster Season Is Back: The Shells, the Origins and the Wines That Belong Beside Them
Oyster season is back. The great oyster origins, the R-month rule, and the wines that belong beside them, from Chablis to Muscadet to fino.
The Best Sparkling Wines To Ring In The New Year
Twenty-twenty-five is less than a week away and New Year’s Eve is when we pop the most corks. Let’s finishContinue Reading
Breaking the Norm with CodornÍu Zero Sparkling Wine
Codorníu Zero Codorniu Zero sparkling wine is, without doubt, a game-changer in the world of non-alcoholic beverages. It sets itselfContinue Reading
Champagne Henri Giraud
Champagne Henri Giraud is a prestigious boutique maison located in Aÿ, which is legally classified as one of only 17 “Grands Crus” wine villages inContinue Reading
The Dozen – High Rollers
A “rare” Rare Champagne and some serious California reds top the list.
Branson Cognac & Le Chemin du Roi Champagne.
Sire Spirits Moves Beyond its Celebrity Image and Into the Mainstream
The Dozen – Rosés Place at the Table
Its subdued fruitiness, accentuated acidity, and relative lack of complexity makes rosé a great food wine.
The Dozen – Fiddlehead-in-Chief
Even though she’s sold her Fiddlestix vineyard, Kathy Joseph continues to make music at Fiddlehead.
The Dozen – A Friend in Bordeaux
From the region’s Right Bank come wines with a familiar name on the label.
The Dozen – Familiar Faces
Revisiting some California labels we have been buying for years.