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When I think of Portugal my mind goes straight to port, but in this summer weather some of their table wines are very pleasant, inexpensive and easy to enjoy. For instance Casal de Ventozela is a family business created in 1983 and dedicated to prod...

The Catena family of Argentina pioneered high-altitude vineyards that are known for their bright and direct sunlight day after day as well as their very cool nights. This wide diurnal temperature variation is so important for developing complex grape...

This week, I had a chat with two of the staff at our store on Harbour Road in Paget because I wanted to get a feel for any changes in wine-buying patterns. One of them told me that chardonnay has been more in demand, starting about six months ago. ...

I wrote last week about wineonline.bm being back up and running and shared some of the wines in its “monthly specials” section. There are more, including ones that offer the opportunity of experiencing the effects of age. You may wonder what conditio...

Last year Burrows Lightbourn Ltd introduced a new data-processing system and decided to re-plan its online store, wineonline.bm. The site is now up and running and one of the features that you can click on is “monthly specials”, where you will find ...

In 2014, National Rosé Day was established to celebrate what is probably our world’s oldest known type of wine. It’s now done every year on the second Saturday in June, which just happens to be tomorrow. Although I wrote about rosé a couple of weeks ...

If I were to say grass, gooseberry, lemon peel, asparagus, acacia, geranium, chamomile, grapefruit, lime and even smoke (hence fumé blanc in California and pouilly fumé in France) you might develop a thirst for a glass of sauvignon blanc. It will be...

Today we will take a trip to the Loire Valley. Once inhabited by Neanderthals it is now known as “the Cradle of the French” and “the Garden of France”, the latter because of its vineyards, fruit orchards and even asparagus farms. This is also the hom...

Doing my best to get inspired from home and have had a look at what the hard-hit French are doing. After all, they have consumed more rosé wine than white for a few years now. They have obviously not been in a mood to celebrate and in April, champag...

Just imagine. My first memory of being taken to a fine-dining restaurant was as a very small boy. An American friend (we thought all Americans were rich) took my mother and I out for a rare treat and, as cars were few and far between then, we left ou...

Last week we featured wineries, that out of the hundreds of thousands worldwide, were selected to be among the top 50. Taking first place overall was Catena, followed by Penfolds, Torres and 19 Crimes. Today, I will share information on another fiv...

I have often been told that the wine trade was a fortunate choice as folks will not only have a glass to celebrate good times, but also if they need a little cheering up. According to a Nielsen survey, the US wine market increased by 27.6 per cent i...