Category: Wine Blog

Rice Wine Flavoured Kit Kats   Japan and all things wine have been in the news quite a bit recently. On February 1st, Japan began selling a new flavour of Kit...

THE BORDEAUX BANDIT New Jersey Prosecutors have dubbed Scott Deluca (25) the “Bordeaux Bandit” on account of being alleged to have stolen many high price bottles. Police officers have spent many months...

In Wine News     Mrs 12 sent me this article the other day about a man who claimed his secret to living till the age of 107 was because...

    I have witnessed two sommeliers engaging in the equivalent of footballers going forehead to forehead after a clumsy challenge. One sommelier favoured a certain wine with a dish,...

When you becomes an enthusiast or lover of something, you bubble over most of the time with an infectious enthusiasm that is normally (enjoyed) by those around you. But often...

I am presented with a leather bound, encyclopaedic volume and the sommelier stands beside me itching to tell me about a hidden gem of a wine secreted within his considerable...

  There is a current frenzy of Alcohol bashing that seems now to be including wine. Health lobbyists would have us believe that you can’t get a hospital bed for...

    Have you ever brought home your wine purchases, delighted with the advice you’d taken, believing that simply uttering the name of the wine would have the same effect...

by Bob   A winemaker called Gerard Bertrand has released a super-premium wine. Fair enough, that is hardly an uncommon occurrence. If you’re not familiar with Gerard Bertrand he is...

By Anna Last week was British Science Week. You might not have been aware of this fact because I wasn’t until it was nearly over. This is because science isn’t,...

By Anna Scott I recently moved house. It wasn’t planned, as with most things in my life, but all happened rather quickly over the last couple of months. The reason...