Category: Wine Blog

Can we cut corners with oak-ageing?   Andrew Jefford wrote about oak-ageing this week in his Decanter blog entitled Tree Time. New French oak is extraordinarily expensive and Jefford wonders whether...

  Why New Zealand might be getting it wrong   While the rest of the world’s wines are getting more expensive, you can’t help but notice that there is a...

Arrogance in wines? A lament for too much oak By Geordie Clarke / Contributing Editor   Arrogance and cockiness. You know what I’m talking about here. Not enough of it...

What to drink while you are watching the Olympics     Some weeks ago we blogged about what wines were best to accompany different types of music.  Today I’ve been...

Below is the July Edition to ‘The List’ of Most Popular UK Wine Merchants according to the number of Twitter Followers : 1 @TheWineSociety 17,284 ▲4.78% 2 @BibendumWine 9,991 ▲2.77%...

The Organised Wine Family     With all the speculation about whether the 2011 wines are good value, we’ve been having a think about what it would take to just...

Should we take celebrity wines seriously? Geordie Clarke / Contributing Editor What do Mario Andretti, Ernie Els and Raymond Burr have in common? Very little in fact – except for...

INTERVIEW WITH ALINE BALY OF CHATEAU COUTET   Your father and uncle owned Chateau Coutet, did you ever envisage joining the family business or did you think that your brother...

Do wine writers lack balls? I can’t remember what I was perusing for when I stumbled across this article from last year on wine-life.co.uk.  Essentially it accuses wine writers, especially...

Lot18 Closing Its UK Operations (OFFICIAL STATEMENT)   Lot18 has decided to close its operations in the UK at the end of this week. UK wine lovers who came to us...

(Contributed by Guest Blogger ‘Bob’)   There is not a person reading this who has not had a Champagne breakfast.  I will wager that at least half of the people...

I seem to be missing out on something – everyone I know seems to be talking about ‘The Only Way is Marbs’, a spin off from ITV’s ‘The Only Way...