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Toast in style

Hubert De Luxe doux

A fresh yellow color, strong nutmeg bouquet and a pleasant sweet flavor.

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Mucha Sekt Brut

Delicate sparkle, full flavor and a light floral scent come together in a beautiful bottle.

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Mionetto Prestige Prosecco

A combination of the delicate aroma of locust and the flavor of green apples, pineapples and oranges.

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Martini Rosé semi-dry

A fruity flavor marvelous for holiday occasions. Enjoy an elegant, light rosé wine popular with customers.

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Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut

With a fresh, juicy and dry flavor and a delicate aroma. Enjoy this luxury sparkling wine that is among the best-selling in the world.

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Miniature encyclopedia of sparking wines: What to select and how to serve it

Sparkling wines, Sekt, aerated sparkling wines or Champagnes? Most people cannot even tell them apart. But at the same time, they often want the same thing - a delicious wine with a cork and small bubbles for those festive occasions, celebrations and to toast an event. So what’s the difference? Sparkling wines are the name used for alcoholic beverages that are produced by primary or secondary fermentation of wines.

This term is regularly confused with “Champagne”. However, the appellation Champagne belongs exclusively to sparkling wines originating in the French wine region of Champagne. All other sparkling wines except for true Champagne are indicated as Sekt, including for example the sparkling wines branded as Hubert and Mucha. Aerated sparkling wine is a lower quality, cheaper wine that is artificially carbonated. It has nothing to do with Sekt.

Mix sparkling wines

Sparkling wines are an excellent combination for light and fresh cocktails. Try the classics or try the winter variation of the popular drink Aperol Spritz.

Mimosa

A bartender first prepared this drink at the luxury hotel Ritz in Paris. Today, Mimosa is a popular brunch. Pour well-cooled ingredients into a champagne glass and mix lightly.

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Hugo Spritz

Put ice in a white wine glass and pour sparkling wine or champagne. Add squeezed lime juice, add base syrup and pour sparkling water.

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Aperol Spritz

Mix the drink in a large glass on a stem with ice cubes. Start with Aperol, continue with prosecco, and finally add soda.

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Taste Slovakia’s tradition

Sparking wines that appeal to the palate are produced on 420 hectares in the Nitra and South Slovakia wine regions under the brand Chateau Topoľčianky. They have been produced there since 1933.

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Your choice is not constricted to alcohol only sparkling wine?

A large number of producers also make non-alcoholic sparkling wines. You can choose white or pink non-alcoholic wine with a drier and sweeter taste. Even celebrating youngsters will be delighted by so-called “children's champagne”.

How do you serve Sekt? Chilled in flutes

Let the wine rest and stand in a cool place. Properly opening the bottle will prevent half the contents from spilling on the floor. After twisting the wire clip holding the cork in place, tilt the bottle at about a 45 degree angle. Rotate the cork in one direction, putting only slight pressure on it until it loosens. Have the glasses ready to pour the sparkling wine immediately after opening the bottle.

The ideal temperature for serving sparkling wine is 3-7 °C. Serve it in long narrow “flutes”, pouring until half-full. This allows the bubbles to rise more slowly and lets you enjoy your toast for a longer time.

Sekts and the labeling on the bottle

Demi-sec

Sparkling wines are classified by sugar content. The applicable dosage for demi-sec wine ranges between 33 and 50 grams per liter. These are sweeter wines.

Brut

Brut sparkling wine has less than 15 grams of sugar per liter in the bottle. It lies between the very dry and semi-dry/sweeter Sekts.

Doux

These Sekts are among the most sweetest of all. The sugar content is greater than 50 grams per liter. They go well with desserts, for example.

Sparkling wines as a gift

Give the unmistakable taste and first-class ingredients in a single bottle.

Because no special occasion should be without sparkling wine!

Something interesting to entertain family and friends

Did you know that the world’s oldest surviving wine shop is located inside the wreck of the Titanic, the famous ocean liner lying on the bottom of the Atlantic? A research team found in a survey of the wreck that most of the bottles were still undamaged. Read more interesting information about the wine we have found for you and entertain your family and friends with what you know.