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Chilled Red Wine

Chilled Red Wine I will never forget growing up and regularly seeing a bottle of red resting on top of the dining room cabinet next to the hot water pipe…

An Early History of Winemaking

An Early History of Winemaking Winemaking is actually a natural process which doesn’t, in fact, require any human intervention. For basic wine to exist all that is needed is for…

Talking Wine – June 2017

Talking Wine – June 2017 You may well have read a most interesting article in The Times recently concerning the fact that flavour perception when tasting wine is created in…

Talking Wine – April 2017

Talking Wine – April 2017 A whisky auctioneer has uncovered a massive counterfeiting operation described as “extremely sophisticated”. Apparently an auctioneer visited the private residence of the seller and became…

Talking Wine – March 2017

Talking Wine – March 2017 I love Burgundy – or at least I thought I loved Burgundy. The problem is that I have been lucky enough to enjoy some stunning…