Temperature-controlled wine storage units
Wine is sensitive to storage temperatures. In traditional wine-producing countries wine is often stored after bottling in underground cellars, which
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The most famous Italian red wines and their pairings
Italy is one of the world’s leading wine countries. From the relatively cool mountainous north, down to the hot southerly
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Three Georgian wines from new UK retailer Degustate
Three wines from Degustate, a new UK-based online Georgian wine shop: www.degustate.co.uk These show the different sides of Georgia, and
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Bairrada, perhaps Portugal’s best terroir? In seven wines
Bairrada is a wine region in northern Portugal that is attracting a lot of attention at the moment. It has
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It’s Carmenere day, and I taste two good examples from Errazuriz
It’s Carmenere day! And here I taste two really good examples from Errazuriz. Carmenere hails from Bordeaux, but it found
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The new face of Cava, Spain’s traditional method sparkling wine
Cava is changing. Over the last few months I’ve been tasting some examples of Cava, the well-known traditional method sparkling
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My idea of heaven
It’s time to stop hoarding that sweet wine and Champagne, sitting and waiting for good times to roll: there has
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The ‘traditional method’, and how it has enabled Champagne to shed the complication of vintage variation
Champagne is rare in the wine world, in that it’s a wine region that is incredibly consumer-facing. Whereas many of
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A Rueda study: exploring this important Spanish white wine region
Rueda is unusual in Spain for being a white wine region. It’s also unusual in that it’s almost, but not
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Three from the KWV Mentors range: high end South Africans
KWV is an important company in the history of South African wine. In 1918, this super-cooperative (full name Kooperative Wijnbouwers
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