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...luxe, www.lebouchon.co.uk/breton/index.php, is already renowned for its impressive Gallic cheese trolley featuring more than 40 varieties, from Le Testard from the Hautes-Alpes to the Corsican Fleur de Maquis. Now frommelier Jean Claude Ali Cherif has started offering a series of regional-cheese master classes, coupled with unusual wine pairings, on the last Tuesday of each month. Ali Cherif's knowledge, built up over 20 years, is formidable and his repartee amusing, inspiring and impressively practical, with advice on how to look after cheeses and when to enjoy them at their seasonal best. Cheese and wine menus from each...
...caffeinated culture, so will the masses want to move in the other direction and drink Drank to come down? We know beer and wine will relax us, but how exactly are these weird chemicals in a purple can altering our body chemistry? On the flip side, the Drank concept taps into the dominant trend in the beverage industry. Cola sales have sunk as people move to functional drinks that promise to hydrate you, focus you, give you a boost and perhaps calm you down. "Consumers want the added benefit," says Tom Pirko, president of Bevmark LLC, a consulting firm...
...that need is at its most pressing in Champagne. The aroma of old sneakers or wet newspaper that signals the presence of TCA drives wine lovers to dump grand crus of all stripes down the drain. The problem is accentuated in sparkling wines like Champagne, whose bubbles only serve to volatilize the taint, making it all the more noticeable. Various studies suggest TCA affects anywhere from 1% to 7% of wines, but for Liem, arguing the exact percentage misses the point. "We are talking about a rate of failure - this renders wine undrinkable," he says. "What...
...Some Champagne producers are starting to agree. Recently, variations on the traditional Champagne cork have been appearing on the market, from the cork by Cortex Company, which has a silicon disk fixed to its bottom to prevent contact with wine, to the Mytik Diamant composite cork. "Our clients don't want to take risks anymore with traditional corks that may be tainted," says Benoît Ecrepont, director-general of Sibel, Mytik Diamant's manufacturer. By employing compressed, heated CO2 in a process similar to the decaffeination of coffee, the unwanted molecules are extracted from natural cork to make...
...Bruno de Saizieu, sales and marketing director of Maestro-maker Alcan, is confident that cork's reign will end one day. Judging from the success of Alcan's Stelvin wine screw cap - whose global sales have skyrocketed from 300 million in 2003 to 3 billion today - De Saizieu thinks Champagne will eventually adopt the Maestro system as well. "When we started the Stelvin, there were an enormous number of people who were outraged," he says. "Today, like them or not, screw caps are no longer questioned as viable alternatives around the world. In Champagne it will be the same...