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As an adjunct to yesterday's post on Hush Heath Vineyard - a set of photos from the estate. Once the new design of Spittoon is completed this post will be absorbed into the first Hush Heath post. But until that...
They chose to make a pink sparkling wine simply "because it makes me smile". With a marketing head on they - that's Richard Balfour-Lynn and his wife - were after a distinct point of difference too. From the heart of...
Wanna giggle at various MW's looking rather uncomfortable in front of a camera while eating and drinking? It's a nice little video extoling the virtues of ConoSur wines and matching them with food through the four seasons. Nice to see...
It's a non-painful affliction, apart from a certain embarrassment, but I am sure I wasn't the only one suffering from Malbec finger last week. The condition results from an over-indulgence in tasting Argentinean wines, not solely Malbec, but Tannat, Cabernet...
Bubbles make a party. But to be honest, this is not the world's most impressive sparkling rosé. It's fine. Absolutely nothing wrong with it at all. Pleasant flavours of red currants and raspberries plus a playful sparkle and that's about...
I can't keep up. For three weeks I've had today marked in the Outlook calendar as Tempranillo Day, for some bright spark has designated today as a celebration of this classic Spanish grape. Then I note, over this week, a...
Waitrose have released a batch of small wine parcels as part of a World of Wine Showcase. The parcels, spread out across the estate so not every branch will receive every wine, include a rather pleasant South African Gewurztraminer (Neethlingshof...
Parcel Force dropped my latest Naked Wines order by the door of number 27, my 'across the hall' neighbours. One box was successfully lifted into No.29 but the retrieveal of the second was interrupted as a gust of wind slammed...
A new Italian retailer has just launched, Design Wine, with the aim of offering British consumers relatively unknown Italian producers. "Currently, over 60% of the wines so loved in Italy, and offered by DesignWine, are not readily available to British...
They've won an award you know; one celebrating their status as the "Greenest Winery in the US". Dunno who decided this or who handed over the trophy to the fine people of Parducci Wine Cellars but one would hope the...
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