France can rightly lay claim to producing many of the world’s finest wines but it doesn’t have a monopoly. The …
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Bottle of Burgundy sells for record £424,000
At a Sotheby’s wine sale in New York, a bottle of Romanee-Conti reached a record price of £424,000, 17 times …
Read More »2017 – A Record Year for English and Welsh Winemakers
Based on HMRC data, the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) report that 3.86 million bottles were on sale in …
Read More »Storing Wine
Few of us are fortunate to have a suitable cellar for storing wine, so what are the alternatives. Ideal conditions …
Read More »Drinking Gluten Free
About 1% of the UK population has Coeliac disease (although not all are diagnosed). There is no cure but the …
Read More »How much should you spend on a bottle of wine
An article in The Daily Mail based on an infographic from Naked Wines reveals that there is only 37p worth of …
Read More »Wine Knowledge – Barbera
Few wine drinkers are familiar with Barbera, yet it is Italy’s third most cultivated grape and one that dates back …
Read More »Wine Knowledge – Merlot
The Merlot grape produces a red wine with medium to full body and herbaceous flavours. It’s typically softer in taste …
Read More »Corks and corkscrews
Cork has been used to seal wine bottles since the 1700’s, this coincided with the availability of uniform glass bottles. …
Read More »The technique of tasting fine wine
Have you ever read a professional wine taster’s tasting notes and question whether all the aromas and flavours described are …
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