Tag Archives: Diamond Jubilee
• British winemakers credit climate change for boom in bubbly sales
Blessed with soil similar to France’s Champagne region, vineyards in England nevertheless produced decades of low-grade goop that caused nary a Frenchman to tremble. But a Great British fizz boom is underway, with winemakers crediting climate change for the warmer weather that has seemed to improve their bubbly. Increasingly hospitable temperatures have helped transplanted champagne […]
• 60-year-old whiskey launched to mark Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
A whisky specialist has launched a 60-year-old single malt to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Gordon & MacPhail in Elgin, Moray, has released 85 bottles of Glen Grant 60 Years Old, which were distilled on February 2 1952, four days before the Queen acceded to the throne. The whisky was bottled on February 2 this […]
