Published by GlassofBubbly.com Issue 2 August/September 2014 £3.95 / €5 / $6.50 of ChampagneGlass & Sparkling Wine Magazine Bubbly Celebrity Interviews Including Jaimie Hilfiger, Laura Hamilton, Mark Baumann, David Gold and More The3 Highest Champagne Bars in London Win a magnum of Prosecco Bubbly Tea in Abu Dhabi The Art of Sabrage Plus Vineyard Homes for Sale WELCOME A Big Thank You For your Support Dear Reader, It’s been a busy last two months and we’ve worked really hard to around the globe from our growing list of international writers. bring you the second issue of our GlassOfBubbly magazine - A big Additional features includes vineyards for sale from around the thank you to everyone who continues to support our growth and world and a dedicated page to photos our readers have taken of to all those new connections we meet daily who are sharing great themselves and a copy of our magazine. content with us. The GlassOfBubbly popularity continues to grow across the A busy June saw us launch the first issue of the GlassOfBubbly internet and we are seeing a daily increase in the demand of our magazine in the Champagne region of France with invites to magazine. We are pleased to now offer a rate card for advertising some of the biggest houses in Reims and Epernay as well as being within GlassOfBubbly so please contact us to find out more about welcomed by some of the great grower labels. We can’t thank the how we can help you increase your brand awareness to a growing wonderful region of Champagne enough with a special mention to audience interested in Champagne and sparkling wines. Piper-Heidsieck, Lanson, Taittinger, Billecart-Salmon, B. Devavry, Laurent-Perrier and Dhondt-Grellet. Jean-Baptiste of Wine We are keen to improve everything that we do so please get in Ambassadors gave us a private tour as did Eric from La Vigne du touch if you have ideas on how we can make things better for you Roy, so a big thank you to both these great guys too. and once again, I really do hope you enjoy the following pages. Until issue three, I wish you all a lovely end of summer! The GlassOfBubbly magazine has proved immensley popular with requests for an issue coming from around the globe with us Eve (Editor) now posting to countries including USA, Canada, United Arab Emirites, Finland, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and many more wonderful locations. We have had the pleasure to be invited to some great tasting events since our last issue including The London Wine Fair, Charles Palmer 2009, 2010 vintage tasting, Franciacorta tasting and the 2014 Imbibe show in London. As per our last issue, we’ve managed to ask a warm selection of famous faces to share their sparkling wine moments with us, highlighted some great Champagne bars from around the world, a magnum giveaway from Nino Franco and interesting articles from [email protected] +44 (0)1206 700888 August/September 2014 Sparkling Wines CONTENTS 10 Belaire Rosé 14 Plus de Bulles Page 8 15 Chamapgne Hébrart 17 Domaine Carneros Page 41 Laura Hamilton ontents 22 Laithwaites Wine The Art of Sabrage 23 Court Garden C 29 Raimes Sparkling Wine 31 Handsome Brut On the Cover Features 32 Haywire 33 Summerhill 38 Regis Camus Celebrates 20 years 6 3 Sparkling Wines that I would Happily 40 Champagne Vollereaux by Gémeaux 49 Camel Valley with Piper-Heidsieck Drink for Breakfast 50 Perth Champagne Club 41 The Art of Sabrage by Oscar Malek 12 The Art is in the Bottle 55 Giffords Hall by Elizabeth Schweitzer 60 Champagne Ayala by Fabien Audebrand 44 Bubbly Tea in Abu Dhabi 64 Champagne Faniel & Fils 16 Franciacorta Tasting by Brandon Stoltenkamp 66 Hush Heath Estate at the Italian Ambassador’s Residence 58 67 Champagne Goutorbe-Bouillot Win a Magnum of Prosecco 20 Champagne in Denmark from Nino Franco by Anders Hochheim 70 The 3 Highest Champagne Bars in London 26 A Very Squerryes Celebration Champagne Bars by Simon Stockton by Simon Stockton 52 The Bicycle Thief Champagne Bar, Canada 75 28 Vineyards of Hampshire Wine Festival Vineyard Homes for Sale 52 Caviar & Prunier House, London 30 Ontario’s Bubbles are Rising 53 GŎNG Chamapagne Bar - Shangri-la Hotel, by Rachel Kenworthy The Shard London 34 The Best Champagnes on the Market 54 The Sydney Cove Oyster Bar Australia Page 70 Celebrity Interviews by Catherine Fallis 82 The View from the Shard, London 8 Laura Hamilton 36 Glass of Bubbly Tweets Celebrities 3 Highest Champagne Bars 19 David Gold 42 An Evening in Abu Dhabi 45 Matt Holland by Brandon Stoltenkamp 51 Mark Baumann 56 The Infinite Monkey Theorem Editorial Director Writers 61 Jaimie Hilfiger by Andrew Baker Eve Walkey Andrew Baker 73 Amanda Prowse 63 Anyone for Crémant? email: [email protected] Catherine Fallis Anders Hochheim by Fay Edwardes Design Fay Edwardes 65 A Red Blooded Italian Jade Redford Rachel Kenworthy by Jennifer Palmer Oscar Malek 68 Nanotechnology Revolutionises Riddling Social Media Katharine O’Callaghan Jennifer Palmer by Deborah Parker Wong Amy Schaller Deborah Parker Wong 68 Glass of Bubbly visits Reims & Epernay Elizabeth Schweitzer Page 57 Advertising and Publishing 78 Simon Stockton Readers Photos email: [email protected] Page 75 Brandon Stoltenkamp Royal Princess Tel: +44 (0)1206 700888 Vineyard Homes for Sale 3 Sparkling Wines that i would happily drink for CHEWTON GLEN Agustí Torelló Kripta Gran Reserva Cava, Peller Estate Ice Cuvée Rosé, Niagara, Penedès, Spain 2009 Canada NV Cava doesn’t necessarily start and stop with the own-brand faceless Last, but certainly not least is the stickiest of the bunch. Indeed Breakfast! phials of fizzy juice that we see in the supermarkets for £6.99. In Peller Estate, who are world renowned producers of the all-too- fact some of the best sparklers in the world have been produced drinkable Ice Wine, have put their award winning sweet wine to I quite enjoy conveying to my peers the fact in the North-Eastern corner of Spain for over one-hundred-and- good use by introducing it as a dosage into their sparkling wine. that there’s really nothing wrong with craving a fifty years now. Macabeo, Parellada and Xarel-lo grapes are used By using Ice Wine – essentially a technique whereby the grapes alongside the traditional method of producing Sparkling Wine, are left on the vine until the heart of winter, then picked and glass of fizzy wine mid-morning, in the heat of reminiscent of that used in Champagne, to create wines that boast gently pressed to make one of the most saccharine and elegant the summer season when you happen to not be character, body and elegance. Agustí Torelló’s Cava is among one of liquids known to mankind – made from red Cabernet France the best I have ever tasted and I keep going back for more! It is rich, grapes, in their traditional sparkling wine made from Chardonnay dragging yourself into work that day. voluptuous, toasty and extremely graceful – what’s more it comes and Pinot Noir, they have designed a wine that is semi-sweet, in an attractive tapered bottle which cannot stand up, meaning that beautifully soft and bubbly that serves particularly well as an Indeed I quite often find myself ordering some form of sparkling wine you have no choice but to polish it off à la quick! aperitif or with light desserts. This works especially well with a with my breakfast when I have taken myself away on a brief sojourn mixed berry infusion and a bowl of fresh fruit as the late morning to somewhere more reminiscent of the Mediterranean than the Home sun continues to rise in the sky. Counties. Happy drinking! So which of the world’s great sparkling wines are best suited to pair with Ancre Hill Estate Sparkling Rosé, a morning coffee, bacon & eggs and a newspaper? Here are some of my Oscar Malek favourites, tried and tested… Monmouthshire, Wales 2009 Director of Wine at Oscar Malek, Chewton Glen & Cliveden House Director of Wine at At Chewton Glen and Cliveden House we are huge supporters Chewton Glen & of the English and Welsh wine industries; so much so that last Cliveden House year we set about forging the largest collection of wines from the United Kingdom available anywhere in the country! At the top of @OscarJMalek our list are the wines from Ancre Hill Estate, just over the Welsh www.chewtonglen.com border on the outskirts of Monmouth Town. I happened to visit the vineyard late last year with Debbie Smith, now the Beverage Manager at Andy Murray’s acclaimed Cromlix Hotel in Perthshire, and we instantly fell in love with the surroundings, the people and of course…the wine! Planted predominantly with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, the first plantings were established in 2006. Whilst all of Ancre Hill’s wines are stunning and I am terribly excited about the prospect of a Welsh sparkling Albariño coming to the market very soon, their stand-out product is certainly their luscious Sparkling Rosé which shouts all manner of forest fruit flavours, a gentle mousse and pronounced backbone of acidity which livens up the juice and makes it highly attractive for food and wine pairing… especially kippers and black pudding! Agustí Torelló Kripta Gran Reserva Cava 6 7 Laura Hamilton 50,000+ FINE WINES BUILD THE ULTIMATE InterviewInterview COLLECTION Which do you prefer, Prosecco or Champagne? Champagne. We drank a fair bit of it at our wedding a couple of years ago. Where’s the best place you’ve ever enjoyed a Glass Of Bubbly? I love a glass of bubbly at Home House in London.