It’s about time I wrote about something fizzy so this week it all about one of our absolute favourites and a real hidden gem. Chamonix Cap Classique Brut Blanc de Blancs 2007 (£19). Chamonix is a fairly substantial piece of estate in the Franschhoek Valley, very close...
Finally some weather to get excited about but I’m not getting too carried away with talk of Rosè in the garden etc because you know what will happen. Instead I’m going to go as close to Rosè as possible and a wine that would be equally enjoyable to quaff away in the...
Frequenters to our little wine shop will know how mad we are for Italian wine, we can barely fit any more onto the shelves yet we keep discovering little gems that simply have to be brought in. In this case we needed to replace a particular wine that is being...
If you’re planning a visit to the shop any time soon then you might notice something a little strange going on. As cycling enthusiasts you may think that we’re branching out into becoming a bike shop. With a shiny new bike hanging from the ceiling you can be forgiven...
Sauvignon Blanc has been in the hills of Piacenza, south of Milan, for over a hundred years and the slopes produce a full flavoured and slightly earthy style of wine. With producers such as Castelli del Duca the region’s full potential is being realised by Carlo...
This time of year can be busy time with lots of supplier portfolio tastings to attend with highlight always being the Liberty Wines event at the Balmoral Hotel. They’re a top importer and distributor of wines and one which I’ve used for my entire time as a wine...
Sometimes I have to reign myself in from writing up a wine made by my Aussie buddy Peter Logan but it has been a while so hopefully I can be excused this time. He has such a vast portfolio of wines in his range that I could write up one a week and it would be late...
Anyone who’s ever visited Marlborough, New Zealand’s number one wine producing region will, without a doubt cruised along the famous road that links Blenheim and Renwick and dodged into many of the country’s top growers that are clustered between these two lovely...
This is possibly the easiest topic to base my Wine of the week column on. What’s a good wine to go with Haggis? This Sunday 25th January we will celebrate the life and poetry of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns, and seeing as the man himself was famously...
