Rasteau AOC celebrates 10 years of Cru Status Are you ready for a perfect wintery red? Last month Rasteau appellation celebrated 10 years of being recognized as a Cru (translates to “growth” in French and is used for a region with a specific terroir and quality) of Côtes du Rhône. You may have heard about …
Great value sparkling wines for the Christmas season (This article was first published on ISSUU.COM – Read the full article on Harpendia Christmas Magazine 2020 Christmas is well and truly knocking at the door. Whist this year certainly has been unlike any other, Christmas is definitely NOT cancelled. It is time for movie marathons, a …
What wine is 19 Crimes? Credit: IG @yoozby Launched in 2012, 19 Crimes is currently the UK’s favourite supermarket wine according to a recent survey conducted by Wine List, a wine subscription service. So why? How? When did this happen? And seeing as so many of you have asked me about this wine at some point …
Wedding Wines: Choosing and finding the best value wine for your wedding. I wrote this article for The Gay Wedding Blog. Click here to see the full feature! Choosing wines for your wedding can be a daunting experience, but it need not be. Firstly the wine world doesn’t want to tell you this, but most …
Wedding Wines: Choosing and finding the best value wine for your wedding. Read More »
Extreme winemaking in The Atacama Desert Firstly, what is Terroir? If you have every spoken to somebody who works in the wine world, you would have inevitably heard them use the word ‘terroir’. Very often misunderstood, this world loosely translates to ‘sense of place’. There is no English equivalent. The French began using this word, …
