Few wine drinkers are familiar with Barbera, yet it is Italy’s third most cultivated grape and one that dates back …
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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 …
Read More »British Wines for British Embassies
Conservative MP Nusrat Ghani who represents Wealden, Sussex at the heart of Britain’s wine renaissance, is calling on Britain’s Embassies …
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Winemaking is a long process involving many stages: harvesting, fermentation, pressing, filtration and bottling. Although most wine is grape based, …
Read More »The history of wine
This a good topic to start an heated discussion, especially if various nationalities are around the table. First point, wine …
Read More »Wine Knowledge – Syrah or Shiraz
Having different names for the same grape is not unusual in the wine world. Shiraz, the New World moniker, is …
Read More »A guide to toasting
Now we all know what a “toast” is, but have you ever wondered where the practice came from and why …
Read More »Can dark chocolate and red wine help beat diabetes?
Diabetes affects 2.9 million people in the UK and it is also believed that a further 850,000 are unaware they …
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