Champagne & sparkling wine
Where the champagne set live: The Sydney suburb buying more fizz than anyone else
More people are drinking Australian and imported sparkling but one area owns the champagne crown.
- Christopher Harris
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- Melbourne Cup
Champagne battle bubbles away as Penfolds pours at races despite rival’s rights
The track wasn’t the only space at Flemington where the competition was hot. The Birdcage has become a battleground for champagne.
- Cara Waters and Stephen Brook
See how the 1 per cent live inside Melbourne Cup’s exclusive marquees
“My crab sandwich, a glass of champagne, the races”: Melbourne Cup’s exclusive Birdcage enclosure is back – and it’s more decadent than ever before.
- Cara Waters
Champagne family feud over non-alcoholic sparkling wine
Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger has vowed never to make a non-alcoholic sparkling wine. But some in his family have other ideas.
- Daniel Woolfson
Hawaii’s ‘famous macadamia nuts’ threatened by cheaper, undisclosed Australian imports
Macadamia nut trees are native to Australia and were introduced to Hawaii in 1881 by a Scotsman. The nut has since become synonymous with Hawaii.
- Audrey McAvoy
Why does my champagne taste oxidised? How to sniff out wine faults
Many factors can make your bottle of bubbly taste a little off. Here is how to avoid them.
- Huon Hooke
Lunch with champagne dame Kyla Kirkpatrick: ‘Parenting for me is tough love. I believe in discipline’
The champagne aficionado has firm ideas about how to host the perfect New Year’s Eve party – and how to raise a daughter as a single parent.
- Stephen Brook
Why the world’s second-largest champagne maker hates remote work
Vranken-Pommery Monopole co-owner Nathalie Vranken wants you to come into the office more and then go for dinner and drinks.
- Jessica Yun
- Analysis
- Sharemarket
Champagne is outperforming gold and Wall Street. Here’s what to buy
The finest bottles of champagne are pouring out heady investment returns. And as the market bubbled ever higher in 2021 and 2022, speculators pounced.
- Elin McCoy
When it comes to champagne bubbles, does size matter?
It takes more than bubbles to make a great champagne or sparkling wine.
- Huon Hooke
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