Category: Wine Blog

Champagne Bottle Sizes Explained

Start quoting the names by which specific sizes of champagne bottles are known and watch the listener’s eyes glaze over. Understandable perhaps, given that the names, which are often difficult...

Categories Wine Blog/Champagne

A Review of Freixenet Prosecco

Freixenet, one of the world’s leading producers of sparkling wine, have entered the Prosecco market and their product hit the shelves in 2017. The Spanish company, originating in Catalonia, was...

Categories Wine Blog/Reviews

Everything You Want To Know About Sulphite Free Wine

When it comes to sheer variety, the average wine drinker is today spoilt for choice. From refined reds from the balmy Mediterranean to crisp whites borne from French’s finest vineyards,...

Categories Wine Blog

Football legend racks up a sky-high bar bill with world’s most expensive wine

We’ve all had those mornings where we’ve winced at the cost of the previous night. However, football ace Cristiano Ronaldo has set a new personal best with a dizzying £27,000...

Categories Wine Blog

Investment Firm Twelve By Seventy Five IS NOT 12×75

I have been asked recently by a few people in the trade if the wine investment house Twelve By Seventy Five Ltd is us. I can categorically say that we...

Categories Fine Wine News/Wine Blog

Cru Bourgeois More Like I haven’t a Clue Bourgeois

Written By An Anonymous Wine Insider (for obvious reasons) read on…. Cru Bourgeois Hierarchy within the wine world seems to be a peculiarly French obsession.  Official designations of which wine is...

Categories Wine Blog

13 Alternatives to The Sunday Times Wine Club

  Not long ago, I was at a dinner party. Nothing unusual, but this time we were all asked to bring a bottle of wine that we’d try at the...

Categories Wine Blog

How Is Gin Made: Key Ingredients & Techniques – Ultimate Resource

Drinkers have been enjoying the distinctive flavor of gin since medieval times. That’s the earliest known date for the Dutch liquor called Genever, made from distilled wine flavored with juniper...

Categories Gin/Wine Blog

Ace of Spades Review | Jay Z’s Champagne House

Armand de Brignac, which is more commonly known as Ace of Spades due to its distinctive bottle and logo, has recently become one of the most popular brands of champagne...

Categories Wine Blog/Champagne

5 Ways To Decant Wine Without A Decanter

I was recently invited to a friend’s 45th birthday party. And amongst all the incredibly cool gifts that he got given (a solid gold coin which said Sell on one...

Categories Wine Blog/Wine Decanters

How To Cure A Hangover At Work Fast – Without Anyone Noticing

Going To Work Hungover If you’re reading an article called How To Cure A Hangover At Work, it probably means that you had a crazy night out, hopefully an epic...

Categories Wine Blog

How To Make Toffee Vodka At Home – 3 Different Methods

Ever bored of serving the same drinks at a party. How about making something new and different. Toffee vodka is literally becoming one of the fastest selling flavoured vodkas out...

Categories Vodka/Wine Blog