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Our first wine this week is the 2017 Pasqua Romeo & Juliet Ripasso Superiore. The Pasqua family, who have a passion for wine and a strong link with Verona, their city of origin, describe it as such: “If wine is the poetry of the earth to the heavens...

You can imagine my disappointment when I realised that we presently have nothing to offer you for International Prokupac Day. The good news is that if you find yourself in Serbia on October 14, I am sure that there will be many opportunities to celeb...

I just love the wines from the Cune winery in Spain as they are always delicious and so well made. During a recent visit to one of our stores the manager pointed out a bottle of 2019 Bela Ribera del Duero and suggested that I should try it as it had...

Jo-Rena Davis calls herself the Wine Diva. It’s a role she fell into with the arrival of Covid-19 a year-and-a-half ago. Newly single and with a newborn in her arms, she lost her job and had to move in with family. Wine, she decided, was the way to ...

We decided in our home this year to celebrate September 10 with a whole week of rather special wines as it was on that day in 1977 that a young lady arrived here to see whether we were meant to be together. Obviously we were! It is also the beginnin...

Reinsurance helped Andrea Viera lead a glamorous life globetrotting and wining and dining in fine restaurants. Today she doesn’t care if she never sees another airport. In London, England she’s happy on the Kings Road in Chelsea, rarely travelling mo...

Today we are going to discuss the seventh most planted wine grape in the world. It wedges in there between syrah in sixth and sauvignon blanc in the eighth spot. I am sure that we all remember exactly where we were on International Grenache Day 20 ye...

In a normal year, wine educator Christian Esser travels more than 100,000 miles to share his knowledge and passion for wine. But this isn’t a normal year, and so Mr Esser is looking forward to a 1,300-mile trip to Bermuda next month, the first away f...

Since the Thursday before Labour Day is set aside to celebrate the most extensively planted wine grape, I will continue from last Friday’s column and describe a few more of our cabernet sauvignons. But first, a little information. It varies considera...

In 2010, in the United States, it was decided to establish the Thursday before Labour Day as National Cabernet Sauvignon Day. With 850,000 acres planted on our planet it is by far the most popular wine grape and its nearest rival, in second place, is...

Although they have not visited Bermuda for a couple of years, an incident this weekend past has put two of our oldest friends, Neil and Maria Empson, firmly in the thoughts of my wife and myself. Neil, a New Zealander, and his wife Maria, a Rhode Isl...

I would certainly be remiss if I did not remember that this day, August 13, was International Left-Hander’s Day. It is very special for about 767,000,000 of us on this planet; this island alone counts for 6,000-plus. I received a reminder from Sarah ...