Category: Wine Blog

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...

What would we drink if the world ran out of wine?   Vim / Editor I was reading this article in the Telegraph earlier about how the world is facing...

Wine and art   I was intrigued to read on Decanter.com  that Jeff Koons has designed the label for the 2010 vintage of Chateau Mouton Rothschild.  Joining the likes of...