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10 Bottles of Bubbles to Pop Open this Festive Season(Post)
Christmas is the perfect time to open a bottle of festive bubbles but that doesn’t always mean reaching for the Champagne. Whether it’s a sparkling created using the traditional method, by adding ice ...
300 Year-Old Vines? Tasting with Sebastian De Martino(Post)When Pietro De Martino arrived at Isla de Maipo in 1934, he recognised the exciting potential for wine production of this cooler part of the Maipo Valley, with its deep, free-draining gravel so ...
Tried & Tested: Moules Marinières and Sauvignon de Touraine(Post)This week I followed a recipe by The Guardian’s Felicity Cloake, devised following extensive research into how to make the perfect Moules Marinières. Her mammoth task included attempting recipes by s ...
Alan's Wine of the Week: Sauvignon de Touraine, Domaine de Pierre 2014(Post)Sauvignon de Touraine, Domaine de Pierre 2014 £10.75 £9.46 Beautifully fresh, complex aromas of spring flowers, fresh mint, capsicum and pea pod. Rounded texture, kept fresh with vibrant acidity.
Our Tour de France takes is to Faugeres(Post)Domaine des Prés Lasses Faugeres 2010 Boris Feigel’s wonderful Faugeres is always held aloft on our Tour de France winners rostrum. Soft, spicy red fruit with Southern French herbs gives this wine a ...
Día de Muertos Cocktails(Post)Día de Muertos (Days of the Dead in English) is a traditional Mexican holiday during which people’s lost loved ones are honoured. Taking place November 1 st and 2nd, Mexicans who observe the Days ...
Twirly-Lamb(Post)Recommended with Rioja Reserva, Marqués de Riscal 2011 "Lamb and Rioja are the best of friends. The rich, spicy, smokey and complex flavours of the wine marry stunningly well with the lamb as well as ...
Côtes de Provence - The Essence of Summer(Post)Azure blue skies; sun-kissed landscape; glittering sea; the smell of lavender, rosemary, olive groves, and hot, baked earth; local market stalls groaning under the weight of a kaleidoscope of ripe s ...
Wine Spectator – five of the finest(Post)Italian wine buyer Sergio De Luca attended the prestigious OperaWine, Finest Italian Wines: 100 Great Producers in Italy last week, returning with news that an amazing nine Great Western Wine produc ...
Quenching a love for the French Quarter : Mastering the Vieux Carré and the De La Louisiane(Post)A shared love for liquid Louisiana, trickles down from the Mississippi, quenching the palates of those after refined dimension. In amongst the classics there are two residents of the ‘Big Easy’ that ...
Alan's Wine of the Week: NV Rosé 'Brut de Noir' Cleto Chiarli(Post)NV Rosé 'Brut de Noir' Cleto Chiarli An intense fruit and strawberry bouquet opens up to redcurrant notes on the palate. A delicious elegant rosé! Regular price: £12.95 Special Price: £11.40 Free de ...
Alan's Wine Of The Week | Cave des St Desirat Syrah, Ardeche, France(Post)Cave des St Desirat Syrah, Ardeche, France “A bit of a bargain this, if you like Syrah in the northern Rhône's Crozes-Hermitage style as much as we do. It's medium bodied with clean-lined red fruit a ...