The Oxford Wine Festival Will Be Taking Place on the August Bank Holiday Weekend
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The 2013 is our first vintage, our winemaker is the great Ulrich Hoffmann and our range of still wines will comprise: * Chardonnay Train at the * Bacchus wine Academy Viticampus, the * Rose - a blend of Pinot Gris, Madeleine Angevine and Pinot Noir winemaking school ... the Classic Cuvee sparkling is currently on the lees, in anticipation of Champagne of 2015 Sanger SANGER Champagne is produced by the wine Academy 80% of the current wine makers, including high profiles Viticampus in Avize in Côtes des Blancs. Viticampus is the names, are former students. Focused respectively on winemaking school of Champagne, a large family and an winegrowing and sustainable development issues, the uninterrupted link conveying knowledge, skills, know-how wine Academy has already received accolades about their and values across the generations. Champagne Grand Cru SANGER. To provide grapes, there are 104 former students representing Avize Viticampus is putting together training programs and almost all the different Champagne areas of winemaking, we will be welcoming sommeliers and managers to be taught with more than 40 villages and 4 counties. This constitutes an by students and professionals the making of champagne. A extraordinary oenological wealth, with a yearly production of unique opportunity to valorise the message about education 130,000 bottles, the profit earned going to the current future of and knowledge for future professionals. http://sanger.fr/en the school. 4 WineEmotion UK, The Lynchets, Bagnor, Newbury, Berkshire RG20 8AQ UK T: +44 1635 282230 E: [email protected] W: www.wineemotionuk.com GIBSONS ORGANIC learnt volunteering on other farms into action. The fruit was picked, and then pressed in the winery and then made into the Gibson’s first ever batch of Gibson’s Organic Liqueurs Is the rest history? Well it’s certainly very tasty. Swooping into to win two Great Taste awards Gold Stars in 2012, the blackcurrant fast became the connoisseurs’ choice. The raspberry, fresh and lighter, an instant hit with everyone. The gentle fermentation O process, using only organic ingredients and home grown fruit, rganic produces an intense fruity taste without the saccharine aftertaste of syrups. Just outside the market town of Burford, gateway to A case of blackcurrant delivered to a party in his mother’s the Cotswolds, lies a little hamlet called Westwell... garden gave Miles the idea of adding a few drops of liqueur into the already flowing champagne. The dark jewelled hue of the Tiny (there are only 40 inhabitants), Westwell is almost blackcurrant mingled instantly and quite spectacularly with the famous for being the most westerly Roman well in bubbly. And in a totally organic moment, the Cotswold Kir was Oxfordshire, hence it’s not massively inventive name, and born. also the sometime dwelling of former home secretary Douglas Hurd. Oh, and there’s When the blackcurrant ran out, giddy with a field with some currently fairly success (and possibly having sampled weatherbeaten looking rows a drop or two) Miles ran home of fruit canes and bushes and returned moments later which is home to Gibson’s brandishing a bottle of Organic Liqueurs. raspberry. The resulting concoction was almost Gibson’s Organic more marvellous is the brainchild than it’s predecessor and baby of Miles and more bottles Gibson. Part time were fetched. And psychotherapist then maybe one and full time or two more....... organic farmer, Miles’ green Word spread fingers come locally about the naturally. His Cotswold Kir and mother designed it’s sister, which the gardens of nearby became known as Westwell Manor, the Cotswold Blush, his father’s family were they are rapidly becoming estanciaeros in South the drink of choice to top America, so tending the earth is up your bubbly for Weddings, deeply ingrained. christenings, birthdays and other Four years ago, the farm was just a special occasions, even Fridays! windswept field with a ramshackle shed at We created our liqueurs to be drunk on their the top. Little by little Miles coaxed life out of the ground, own, and then discovered a whole new world of things to do planting a few rows of raspberry canes and blackcurrant bushes and with them; drizzled over a raspberry Eton Mess, sloshed in selling the first of the fruit to local shops and farmer’s markets. a cocktail, but our favourite has to be in a good old glass of Gradually he planted more and more, starting to put the skills he’d bubbly...vive those bubbles!! 6 6 7 PERRIER JOUET Perrier- Jouët Champagne Perrier-Jouët has released A subtle hint of pinot noir macerated in the press lends the a limited edition vintage cuveé to wine suppleness and body while adding a light, cheerful colour. Freshness and sophistication are the essence of this celebrate spring, the Belle Epoque Belle Epoque limited edition and the 2007 vintage reflects Edition Premiere 2007 the first ever this nascent beauty of spring, as it was a year when the ephemeral Champagne. chardonnay vines flowered early.” The Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque Limited Edition 2007 is a Created to showcase some of the best Grand Cru highly original colour for a cuvée de prestige, pale pink with Chardonnays in the region, this new cuveé is a blend of 90% shades of peach. Chardonnay and 10% Pinot Noir from the 2007 vintage. It will be available for a limited time only. Delicate on the nose with subtle hints of white flowers (elderflower), white fruits (peach), marshmallow and citrus Cellar Master Hervé Deschamps presented the Edition (yuzu peel) and newly-ripe red berries (red currant, Morello Premiere for the first time on the 20th March 2014, the first cherry). day of Spring at an exclusive lunch specially created by Head Chef Oliver Lange at the Magazine Restaurant, part of the On the palate, the lightness and tremendous freshness of Serpentine Sackler Gallery in Kensington Gardens. chardonnays and the gentle acidity in the mouth gives the cuvée a crisp attack then a nicely rounded note on the finish Hervé Deschamps, only the seventh person to hold this making it an ideal accompaniment to spring dishes. position at Perrier-Jouët explains “This spring cuvee was conceived around a preponderance of Grand Crus chardonnay grapes - the House’s signature - selected for their freshness, finesse and liveliness. 8 9 Armand de Brignac is a limited-production At our winery, we press these grapes on a traditional Coquart prestige Champagne receiving phenomenal device and retain only the top fraction of the first pressing, ensuring that we obtain the purest and most desirable juice. For international critical acclaim. Armand de Brignac, this pressing is blended with that of harvests Armand of two prior outstanding vintages, each obtained by these same It is available in over 120 countries worldwide and is careful methods. The bottles are then aged for at least three years de produced by the award-winning Champagne Cattier House in our cellars – considered among the deepest in Champagne, of Chigny-les-Roses, France. The Cattier family has owned and thus most conducive to a slow aging process. At the final Brignac and cultivated vineyards in the Montagne de Reims terror stage of their aging, the bottles are each riddled by hand – a in the French Champagne region since 1763, and patriarch process seldom done today – and then disgorged. The final touch Prestige cuvées that exemplify unmatched Jean-Jacques Cattier oversees the production of Armand de is another unique one to Armand de Brignac – we use a liqueur Brignac.