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Karen Krizanovich

My father, Marilyn Monroe and Dom Perignon

My father, Marilyn Monroe and Dom Perignon

by Karen Krizanovich

"This act of blind tasting started the rumour that he was blind (he wasn’t)"
Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich on winter sparklers

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich on winter sparklers

by Karen Krizanovich

"It’s the FOMO champer for your hamper and I can’t believe I wrote that"
Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich works her way through the best of the best BTG lists

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich works her way through the best of the best BTG lists

by Karen Krizanovich

"Yes, my first encounter was at Sheekey’s, the theatre district’s darling heart. But Henriot is at home in Hollywood’s Waldorf Astoria, Tokyo’s Restaurant Apicius and London’s Four Seasons Hotel at Ten Trinity Square as well"
Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich’s guide to midsummer sparkle

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich’s guide to midsummer sparkle

by Karen Krizanovich

"I don’t want to read about a wine I can’t actually get"
Red carpets and undiscovered gems

Red carpets and undiscovered gems

by Karen Krizanovich

"Where else can I savour the choices of often esoteric programmers whose idea of a great film is a far cry from mine?"
Effervesce Sense | Drink the farm dry

Effervesce Sense | Drink the farm dry

by Karen Krizanovich

"For sure, no wine like this was ever served in the history of Illinois"
Stately home is where the heart is | Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire

Stately home is where the heart is | Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire

by Karen Krizanovich

"It’s not a knackering drive (you can take a helicopter), has many seductive historical details like fancy romantic-novel chandeliers, wooden balustrade gargoyles with boobs, aphrodisiac Valrhona Tulakalum dark chocolate fondant, what more could impress someone you like?"
Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich on all things Bond and Bollinger

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich on all things Bond and Bollinger

by Karen Krizanovich

"This summer, I popped into The Bloomsbury Hotel’s Coral Room to witness people so happy to be out of lockdown that the scene was literally Bacchanalia"
Great white ways | Karen Krizanovich reviews <em>The Shark is Broken</em>

Great white ways | Karen Krizanovich reviews The Shark is Broken

by Karen Krizanovich

"In the programme, there are many lovely photos but one especially captures that time - him peeking under the covering of one shark, his father at the its head"
Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich on Exton Park Rosé and champagne for a good cause

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich on Exton Park Rosé and champagne for a good cause

by Karen Krizanovich

"My hand went to the wrong neck. The foil off, it was like breaking into an ISA for shits and giggles"