A Wine Rally in Champagne
After 3 editions in Flanders, one that crossed the border with The Netherlands in the Meuse Valley ánd a tour in Wallonia, this year the Flemish Wine Guild took its wine rally to the...
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Spring in Champagne – Le Printemps des Champagnes 2018
Le Printemps des Champagnes (= The Spring of Champagnes) is an annual event where different groups of champagne growers present their champagnes to journalists, wine traders, restaurateurs and sommeliers from all over the world. 22...
Red Wines of Piemonte: More Than Nebbiolo
Italy is not just an unforgettable holiday destination but also a stunning wine country, with plenty of treasures waiting to be discovered in each of its 20 wine regions. One of its top performers...
Women in Wine – Wine Lady of the Year 2018
2017 was a great year for me, with becoming Champagne Ambassador for Belgium and Runner-Up in the European Champagne Ambassador finals. So far in 2018 this streak seems to continue: earlier this week, I...
Food and Wine Pairing: Champagne
It’s been over 25 years since I bought my first scruffy book about herbs in a dusty second-hand bookstore in my hometown Ghent, and I had no idea it would eventually lead me to...
A New Film About Champagne
The Comité Champagne, the French trade organisation which represents the champagne houses as well as the independent champagne producers, has recently launched a new educational video about champagne (the wines) and Champagne (the region)....
Concours Européen des Ambassadeurs du Champagne 2018
(Note: I admit, this post is unforgivably late, but as you can understand, these past few months have been insanely busy. 😉 On the plus side: in the meantime the official videos from the...
That Champagne Feeling…
Exciting times here at Wine and Words – earlier this week I was declared the winner of the Belgian finals of the Concours Européen des Ambassadeurs du Champagne, the European Champagne Ambassadors’ Awards Competition,...
Monthly Musings of a Wine Lover – June
It’s been very quiet here on the blog these past months – so much so that I should probably rename these ‘monthly musings’ to ‘bi-annual musings’…. But it was for all the right reasons,...
Vertical: Passion and Pinot on the Oregon Wine Trail, by Rex Pickett (Book Review)
Don’t hold it against me, but I’m endlessly fascinated by bacchanals – from references in the classics, in fine arts, in Lord Byron’s poetry and the 1990’s bestseller The Secret History by Donna Tartt, to...
