It has long been espoused by many that the great wines of Burgundy are inflating like a giant balloon. However, the heat of each passing...

My long-standing love affair with Spanish Wines is an open secret amongst my shop colleagues – and many of our customers too. I travel there...

When you think of Austria, it’s likely that your mind will conjure up images of delicious schnitzels, the Alps, Julie Andrews, baroque and rococo architecture,...

What does Austrian wine conjure up to you? Cold weather, tall bottles and grapes you can’t pronounce? (Rotgipfler I’m looking at you) At this point...

We think of Champagne as one region and one particularly delicious style of wine, invented by a certain monk a few centuries past. Quaffed by...

A late spring visit to the Champagne region is often full of tension: will there be a late spring frost that kills many of the...

Alentejo, the vast region that accounts for a third of all Portugal’s land mass is having a moment. It’s had glorious moments in the past:...

April is Portuguese Wine month at The Good Wine Shop – a very welcome chance to share our enthusiasm for the amazing variety, quality and...

Saying Auf Wiedersehen to the bag, gallop on a thoroughbred, visit the seaside and discover why Germany is usurping Burgundy. If I had just a...