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High Altitude Wines: How Elevation Shapes Great Wine

High Altitude Wines There’s something magical about wines that come from the mountains. As vineyards climb higher, everything changes — the sunlight is more intense, nights are cooler, and grapes ripen more slowly, building layers of flavour and elegance. Altitude, as it turns out, can be a winemaker’s secret weapon. Wines from Mendoza Nowhere is […]

Celebrating Welsh Wine Week: A Toast to a Thriving Industry

Welsh Wine Week As Welsh Wine Week unfolds, there’s no better time to celebrate the remarkable rise of Welsh wine over the past decade. Wales is now producing award-winning wines that hold their own against better-known regions. From crisp, mineral whites to delicate rosés and elegant reds, Welsh vineyards are embracing the terroir of their […]

Discovering the Craft of Miquel Pons Cava

Miquel Pons Penedès Visiting Miquel Pons Cava was a fascinating experience. It revealed the knowledge and precision behind every bottle of this renowned Spanish sparkling wine. Nestled in the heart of Catalonia’s Penedès region, Miquel Pons is a family-run organic winery. They are dedicated to preserving traditional Cava-making methods, while embracing modern techniques to ensure […]

Champagne Cordeuil Père et Fille

A fantastic Champagne tasting in Noe Les Mallets.

Hungarian Wine Summit

‘Oh Lucky Man!’ There are times in my life when I wonder what I have done to deserve something. Here in a good way I am now in the Hungarian Wine Summit! 20 years after my first wine trip to Hungary, courtesy of the kindness of Hugh Johnson. He arranged a visit to the recently […]

The Old Bridge Hotel

We visit old friends in London every now and again and our favourite stop on the way home is The Old Bridge Hotel. It’s a homely and comfortable hotel in Huntingdon. This is also Oliver Cromwell’s birthplace as it happens. The Old Bridge Hotel has a good restaurant and genuinely welcoming, friendly and professional staff. […]

I Fabbri

Dylan’s Travels to Chianti What a night at I Fabbri. I had to do some serious rally driving to arrive at all. It had been a long four and a half hour drive from Cantinarte in Abruzzo. The last half or particularly 20 minutes was challenging. The tarmac ran out, the mist was down and […]

Cantinarte

A trip to Abruzzo in Italy to taste some fine organic wines.

Understanding Rioja

Rioja (pronounced “ree” + “OH” + “kuh”) as we know it is a red wine, made using the Tempranillo grape. Graciano, Mazuelo and Maturana Tinto are also grown in small quantities as blending companions. What will you taste? You can expect a Rioja red blend to have complex flavours, earth and leather layered with dark […]

Crozes-Hermitage

Producer of the Month – Domaine les Chenêts Crozes-Hermitage The vagaries of weather had made Madame a bit distracted the last time we visited Domaine les Chenêts a few years ago. They had had some heavy rains and hail which had destroyed a proportion of the crop. By now, the weather had swung to the […]

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