Gourmet Traveller

Fizz Master

VINTAGE BRUT

Vintage Champagne is the embodiment of “this does what it says on the label” thanks to the strict appellation controls (or AOC) of Champagne. One hundred per cent of the grapes must come from the same vintage and be aged for at least three years in bottle before release. We often see hype around certain vintages with the most recent one being the 2008 vintage, which was heralded as good as 1928 (another outstanding year). While we’ve already seen most of the 2008 vintages come and go, don’t be disheartened. According

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Gourmet Traveller

Gourmet Traveller1 min read
Land & Sea
Growing up, Dennis Tierney ebbed and flowed between world travel and life on a hobby farm in northern New South Wales, learning from his mother, a French chef, every step of the way. His first professional experiences in the kitchen were at Fins in B
Gourmet Traveller5 min read
Game On
That looks like my worst nightmare.” This is one of the many shocked comments I got on my Instagram story when I posted images of my 25-plus course at Amisfield, just outside Queenstown on New Zealand’s South Island. I understood. Chef Vaughan Mabee’
Gourmet Traveller3 min read
Wild Foraged Plants
Foraging wild food has become desperately fashionable in recent years. Social media is awash with tutorials on how to harvest and prepare plants and fungi from public places. It’s a truly fascinating social phenomenon, because foraging wild plants is

Related Books & Audiobooks