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On February 7 the Wine Enthusiast, a magazine and website with half a million subscribers, held a black-tie event at Eden Roc Miami Beach. I often quote the various wine reviews that they publish, and the purpose of this recent gathering was to prese...

If you are thinking of an appropriate wine to have with your valentine, here are a few to consider. What could be better to share than a wine called Moongate? Local lore has it that this is Bermuda’s best symbol of love. Couples that walk through on...

Sometimes it is not about pairing with a cheese selection or a meal, but just having a wine that fits your mindset at the time. Let me give you a few examples. As you read this, it will have been two weeks since my wife called out a bit of news to ...

As I write this on Monday, January 24, my thoughts are far away. The James Webb telescope is scheduled to arrive at its L2 Lagrange point, a million miles from Earth, in about six hours’ time and I am waiting to be overwhelmed with knowledge of our u...

I was recently chatting with Jonny Leadley at Discovery Wines and he told me that he had, for Christmas, a bottle of 1997 Beringer Private Reserve Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. He rated it as one of the most memorable experiences during his career ...

Dry January, dranuary.....whatever you call it, it is a staple for lots of people. We have a run of family birthdays in early January so I tend to wait a week or so, but then I am fully in! In fact, I’ve been a lot lighter on the booze lately. Beca...

I would guess it was about seven years ago that The Royal Gazette approached me with the idea of turning Burrows Lightbourn Ltd's twice monthly advertisement into a weekly “infomercial” that would discuss wine matters of interest. I suggested that w...

In the galactic Klingon language of Star Trek an appropriate toast may have been for 2021 yIn DaSIQjaj, or for those not fluent with it, “may you endure life”. With our Christmas dinner downsized to my dear wife and myself (and a 100 Parker point 199...

I would like to narrow the wine selection down to three types to have with roast turkey: champagne, chardonnay and pinot noir. The house of Piper-Heidsieck has cropped up a few times in my forty-five years in the trade and very recently Burrows Ligh...

Business owner Alfonso Harris has doubled down on the olde towne. Mr Harris, the long-time proprietor of Churchill’s wine and spirits store in the Town of St George, has added a second shop, Winston’s Wines, to his portfolio. The 59-year-old said: “I...

With wines that have all arrived here quite recently, I would like to take you for a trip around the world of wine. We will lead of with the rare blaufrankisch grape cultivated by the Jermann family in Italy for over 200 years. We have their 2016 Bla...

As today’s wines all rate over 90 points they would all win gold medals in a wine competition. Robert Parker introduced the 100-point system in his Wine Advocate that he launched in 1978; points are given for colour and looks, aroma and bouquet, fla...