I doesn’t take much to get me excited about good wine but with such an abundance of good wine it’s important to come up with something clever and innovative (and perhaps with a link to cycling) to get me really going. So a small producer in the Ventoux called Domaine...
The quality of Sauvignon Blanc coming out of the Touraine region of the Loire Valley continues to impress me, considerably more so than it's rich neighbours up river in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume. Founded in 1905, Domaine de Corbillieres has been in the Barbou family...
I've genuinely lost count of the amount of times our Aussie winemaker friend Peter Logan has visited North Berwick, he just can't get enough of it. This might actually be his tenth visit, but hey, what's there not to love about East Lothian and North Berwick. He loves...
Judging by the amount of Logan Wines we have in the shop, I'll forgive people for thinking the shop is called Logan Bros. Ever since his first visit to the shop back in 2004, Peter Logan has become one of my best buds in the wine world and after eight visits to the...
When I'm not thinking about booze, my mind tends to meander onto cycling and as the Giro d'italia (cycling's Tour of Italy) enters it's second week I thought it might be fun to focus on something Italian. As I write this, the Giro has just past though Campania, home...
Summer have not quite reached East Lothian but I still love this time of year mostly because it’s time to get out and enjoy the garden, scrub down the barbeque, sit back and enjoy some alfresco food and drink. What better way to get into the groove than a lovely glass...
Apologies to people who are tiring of hearing me bang on about how brilliant Portuguese wines are but there's just one more I have to sneak in. I talked about the Beyra Tinto a couple of weeks ago and today I'd like to highlight their white counterpart, Beyra Branco....
If you read these columns from time to time or if you visit the shop you'll have a pretty good idea that we've got a massive soft spot for Portuguese wines.I genuinely feel that if had to drink wine from only one country for the rest of my life the answer would be...
The one good thing about January and February is the fun time we have buzzing around and getting to as many tastings as we possibly can in order to keep tabs on things and fine tune the range for the upcoming season. People are really upping their game with...
