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Why you should drink more English Fizz!
How English wine found its fizz For Easter, we participated in the Big English Wine Easter campaign, to support the UK wine industry...
Luncheon Claret
Recently, after I described a particularly juicy, easy-drinking wine that we had both just tasted as a ‘luncheon claret’, my colleague did a double...
Thanksgiving Wine Picks
This year we need all the reasons we can possibly find to be cheerful. Thanksgiving is a perfect excuse to crack a great bottle –...
Getting you through 2020 with Richards top Rieslings
As a self-confessed Riesling nut and whilst in the midst of an Indian summer with a few more hot days in the forecast what...
Natural Wines - what’s it all about?
“Natural Wine” is a catch-all term used – and sometimes misused, to denote some form of alternative wine: not mainstream, not corporate, not large production,...
The future is bright, the future is ‘orange’ wine
You must have noticed how predicting the future has become a whole lot more difficult recently. Can anyone tell me if I can travel to...
What is Grower Champagne?
I have heard many times that Champagne is not a real wine, that it has its place at parties, that it doesn’t reflect the land,...
Authenticity in Wine
What is an authentic, or ‘real’, wine? Is it made from organic grapes, using biodynamic practices? Is it natural, in that there is nothing added...
100 Years of the Negroni
This year marks 100 years since the invention of the Negroni cocktail. Like all the best things, the Negroni is deceptively simple: 3 equal parts...