Category: Wine Blog

Robert Parker Can’t live with him, can’t live without him   By Geordie Clarke / Contributing Editor Only in the wine industry could the fortunes of others rely so heavily...

Is it worth it?   I’ve been very lucky over the years to taste a lot of wines that are so far out of my price range that if I...

5 reasons to shoehorn wine into your healthy diet   The end of Dry February is still ages away and my determination to avoid wine for the month is already...

#WineSwap… Everyone’s doing it A couple of our friends have come up with a rather genius idea that deserves a bit of attention, especially from those of you that regularly...

Wine Blog 12×75 Wine Blog does not have a blogroll for various reasons, but for over a year now, I’ve been meaning to put down a few of my favourite...

Opinion piece supplied by Jon Barr, Director of fine wine merchants EFWines. A review of 2012:   At the risk of stating the obvious, the market for the best Bordeaux...

Crap wine, plebs, snobbery and the whole class debate – sorted.   As the recent ‘pleb’ debate surrounding Tory Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell has unfolded, many of us have been...

Learning to drink I was reading this article on Decanter.com about schoolchildren in Bordeaux learning the basics of winemaking.  How lovely, I thought, that they are learning about the heritage...