I recently read an article about the amount of time we function without sight and I am not talking ‘blind’ wine tasting here or sleeping...

I have heard many times that Champagne is not a real wine, that it has its place at parties, that it doesn’t reflect the land,...

We’ve had a great influx of new wines over the last couple of months as we get ready for the sunny season, read on below...

What is an authentic, or ‘real’, wine?  Is it made from organic grapes, using biodynamic practices?  Is it natural, in that there is nothing added...

This year marks 100 years since the invention of the Negroni cocktail. Like all the best things, the Negroni is deceptively simple: 3 equal parts...

The Sideways effect: “If anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving.  I am not drinking any f*****g Merlot“,  Miles pronounces in the film Sideways.  If like me,...

Regular visitors to The Good Wine Shop may well have already come across the whiskies of the Benromach distillery, they have been a staple of...

In 2009 the talented, energetic Fabio Motta acquired 4 hectares of vines in a prime location within the Bolgheri DOC, home of Sassicaia, Ornellaia and...

Marcus explaining that this Austrian Acacia barrel was made for his father’s 40th birthday and is still in use today. Back in the 1990’s, the...