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Tasting Note: Champagne AYALA Le Blanc de Blancs 2014
AYALA Le Blanc de Blancs 2014 showcases the beauty of pure Chardonnay. It’s bright in colour and in aroma, expressing clean, fresh lemon, alongside perfect flaky pastry.
Sparkling Wine From Italy and Around the World: Your Ultimate Guide (Including Recommendations from 6 Masters of Wine)
Whether it’s sparkling wine from Italy, France, USA, South Africa, it’s official: we love our bubbly. Sparkling wine sales now account for some 10% of all wine sales globally, meaning we are consuming approximately 2.5 billion litres of fizz every year. This figure is only set to increase, as more and more consumers become interested in premium wines. If there are bubbles to pop, we are popping them!
This is your ultimate guide for sparkling wine from Italy and beyond. Strap in - it’s going to be a bubbly ride.
An Introduction to Grower Champagne
Grower Champagne is Champagne from growers who make their own wines from their own grapes, exclusively from their own vineyards. This is different to Champagne from a ‘House’, such as Veuve Clicquot or Taittinger, which are large-scale productions that buy grapes from a selection of growers, as well as using their own grapes from their own vineyards, to be able to produce the volume of wine that they do.