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...

by Geordie Clarke / Contributing Editor Quite often when I meet someone at a work event the first thing they say is, “I hear you’re a real wine buff,” followed...

I use the LinkedIn website quite a lot to network with people – both in my day job in IT and my sideline as a wine blogger.  The best way...

(Guest Blog by Robert Davidson / BWI)   Wine scores are now so invaluable to the consumer and merchant alike that they both underpin and are the focus of most...

  One of the assumptions that is often made when you tell someone you work in the wine trade is that you spend half your life in a pleasant state...

Below is the June edition to ‘The List’ of Most Popular UK Wine Merchants according to the number of Twitter Followers :   1 @TheWineSociety 16,494 ▲4.33% 2 @BibendumWine 9,721...

Our views on the market and the latest 2011 Bordeaux campaign With all the Bordeaux 2011 now released, including a great Ausone and overpriced Petrus, this will continue to be...

We’ve all been waiting for an update on Rudy Kurniawan’s arrest and finally we had one – as well as several intriguing replies to the news.  The Mail reports here...

I suppose my first question is you have never had a job working for other people. You have always been your own boss from the day you graduated until today....

The first question I want to ask you is, what was it like growing up here at Chateau Brane-Cantenac? I loved growing up here. I went to school in Bordeaux...