A Viennese vacation - Weingut Zahel
July 07 2022
by Niall Ward-Gist
What does Austrian wine conjure up to you? Cold weather, tall bottles and gra...
July 07 2022
by Niall Ward-Gist
What does Austrian wine conjure up to you? Cold weather, tall bottles and gra...
June 23 2022
by Pippa Hayward
We think of Champagne as one region and one particularly delicious style o...
June 09 2022
by Richard Wilson
A late spring visit to the Champagne region is often full of tension: will th...
May 17 2022
by Pippa Hayward
Grenache – is this the world’s most under-valued and overlooked grape? Cha...
April 28 2022
by Pippa Hayward
Alentejo, the vast region that accounts for a third of all Portugal’s land ...
April 21 2022
by Pippa Hayward
April is Portuguese Wine month at The Good Wine Shop – a very welcome chance ...
March 30 2022
by Richard Wilson
Saying Auf Wiedersehen to the bag, gallop on a thoroughbred, visit the seasid...
February 18 2022
by Pippa Hayward
One of the great joys of working with The Good Wine Shop is the constant stre...
December 13 2021
by Pippa Hayward
Please note all the wines mentioned are available to buy from us. Those witho...
November 08 2021
by Pippa Hayward
International Sherry week began 8 years ago – 7 whole days devoted to tasting...
October 22 2021
by Pippa Hayward
Viña Gravonia – THE icon of white Rioja made by Lopez de Heredia, beloved b...
October 14 2021
by Pippa Hayward
Fresh from the coolest slopes in Rioja, a new iteration of Spain’s most famou...
September 23 2021
by Pippa Hayward
It began in the Middle Ages, after the discovery of the relic of St James led...
September 15 2021
by Richard Wilson
I know the term ‘New Wave South Africa’ has been bandied around for a few yea...
September 10 2021
by Richard Wilson
Pieter was coined “The man making mind-bending wine” by The Telegraph so p...
August 19 2021
by Bastian Fischer
Chablis… one of those magic words that makes the eyes of many wine lovers tw...
July 14 2021
by Pippa Hayward
Bierzo’s location in the most remote corner of Castilla y León - between Gal...
June 24 2021
by Ben Humberstone
Good Wine, Real People, Great Stories – 6 words that have been at the heart o...