How to serve Champagne?

It seems to be obvious, but it isn't really. Most of us (no, it's not an exaggeration) make horrible mistakes, completely unintentionally ruining the best of bottles. Sparkling wines are very sensitive and nothing is easier than destroying their harmony

Bubbly Revolution
Wine Technology

No more problems with opening a bottle of Champagne. No more popping corks...

Bubbles for beginners
Common and uncommon facts

What's in champagne that made it become the wine for special occasions?

Wine & Spices
Wine History

It was supposed to warm one up, to disinfect, to cure all kinds of diseases and to protect from demons. Alcohol seasoned with spices isn't of course a modern invention, everybody knows that, but where did this whole idea come from ? That's much harder to say...

Wine Ice Cream
Wine & Gastronomie

The summer started. More and more often thinking about wine we have a picture of a shady veranda and a bottle of something light put on the table. Of course in a bucket full of glass and water. But really why limit ourselves, why not to go a step further and make... an ice cream out of it?

Screwcaps or corks?
Technology

After fitting screw caps to bottles it seemed the problem had been solved and TCA (tri-chlor-anisol) was now a distant memory. Then all of a sudden, British scientists announced that millions of bottles had spoiled and rather than TCA their contents were suffering from a completely different affliction: the pungent odour of rotten eggs.