Dorp Street MCC and Champagne Festival
In keeping with last weeks Champagne theme, here’s your invitation to the inaugural Dorp Street MCC and Champagne Festival!
In 1971 South Africa’s premier wine producing region, Stellenbosch, released the country’s first wine modeled on the famous sparkling wines of the Champagne region in France. 39 years later, we have the privilege of announcing the arrival [...]
Oldest Bottle of Bubbly Discovered!
Said to be the oldest drinkable Champagne in the world, about 30 bottles of Veuve Clicquot were brought up by divers from an 18th century shipwreck off Åland, an autonomous Baltic island between Sweden and Finland. The Champagne is said to date back to between 1772 and 1788.
The divers wasted no time and cracked open [...]
The Champagne that did it…
It was one of those moments when it all just made sense, and I finally understood Champagne… or at least Cap du Classique
‘Perhaps the only thing I’ve ever acquired from Champagne is a hangover.’
I’ve never been a big Champagne drinker, a glass here and there at a cocktail party perhaps, but nothing more. [...]
