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Charlie’s Road Trip to the Loire - 2/3
After a sound night’s sleep, our second continental breakfast of the trip and feeling slightly the worse for wear from the previous day’s shenanigans, we...
Charlie’s Road Trip to the Loire - 1/3
After a restful night in central Nantes, we are ready to hit the road early. Our designated driver is at the wheel of the minivan,...
Vinho Verde - Re-visiting Portugal’s most famous white wine region
Vinho Verde hugs the northwest corner of Portugal, bordered by the Atlantic and the Minho River to the north – effectively the border with...
Why you should drink more English Fizz!
How English wine found its fizz For Easter, we participated in the Big English Wine Easter campaign, to support the UK wine industry...
German wine – red, white and never better
A miracle has happened in Germany. A generation ago there were good German wines but you had to search hard to find some. Today they...
Old Vines, Young Winemakers – New Wave South Africa
Writing a blog piece occasionally leaves me wondering where to begin – not with New Wave South Africa, I almost witnessed its birth. I was...
Avignonesi – the re-invention of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
The region of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano (very easy to get confused with the grape variety called Montepulciano d’Abruzzo which has nothing to do with...
A piece of Sherry’s history to celebrate International Sherry Week
The Almacenista story in Jerez Few wines are subject to as many misguided assumptions as Sherry – it’s all brown and sweet, it keeps forever,...
The Pope, the Palace, his Court and the Wine
The Papal Palace in Avignon In 1405, fed up with the Vatican’s double-dealing and intrigue, Pope Clement the fifth fled to France settling in Avignon....