Last week I mentioned that November 12 would be International Tempranillo Day and I described a wine from Spain.
The date may have been a little confusing. Those with a far better memory than I am bl...
The Cambridge Dictionary describes hodgepodge as “a confused mixture of different things” and this describes the divergent selection of wines that I will share with you today as there is no common bon...
I recently wrote that many consider brunello Italy’s finest red wine and now I feel a little guilty, as this was rather like trying to decide whether burgundy or bordeaux is the finest that France has...
Today I am just going to write about chardonnays from California and how they work well for me with seafood. I could take the word California out and substitute white burgundy, but not this time.
Let ...
There is something enchantingly sophisticated about a fine brunello di Montalcino, it just reeks of classic taste and ethereal aromas.
Made 100 per cent from the brunello clone of Italy’s sangiovese ...
Topping the list of our world’s most planted wine grapes is cabernet sauvignon with 840,000 acres.
Merlot takes the second spot with 657,300 and the popular pinot noir is well behind with 285,000. By...
Although these are strange times to judge which way our market is going, the decision has been made to reduce, for a limited time, the price of a few wines in our stores — with, of course, the desire ...
Let me start with discussing a few statistics as possibly a quick scan of those recently released may have led to the wrong conclusion.
I read last week that car sales were down 99 per cent, clothes ...
August 4 of each year is designated “World White Wine Day”, and although I am a little slow off the mark, I would like to suggest a few off the beaten path today.
First I must confess that even after ...
Last week I wrote of pinot noir and how August 18 is set aside each year to celebrate the wines made from this historic, cool-climate-loving grape.
We ended with Drouhin Cuvée Laurène Pinot Noir from...
