Barolo, known as “the King of Wines and the Wine of Kings”, is beyond question one of the most famous and luxury wines produced in the whole of Italy. In recent years huge effort has been made to rank the finest vineyards and wines of Barolo so that the wine lovers (and wine investors) of …
Yep, don’t worry, you don’t have to read that twice, you read it correctly the first time! For our christmas jukebox We’re going to take some of the best Christmas Songs around and pair them up with some of the fine Italian wines we’ve got on our Christmas offer to get you in the festive …
Libiamo’s Christmas Jukebox – 5 Top Wine Pairings for your Favourite Christmas songs Read More »
organic wineS have seen exponential growth in the past couple of decades. What started out as a curiosity for “hippies and hobbyists” has now become THE target for forward thinking wineries, and Italy is a country at the forefront of organic winemaking in the world. Italian Organic Boom Organic wine in Italy is booming, with …
What a brand Prosecco is, eh? You can’t move a muscle in a wine aisle without seeing all these labels and discounts and offers flying at you. The UK loves its bubbles and the boom in Prosecco in the last 10 years has been as unprecedented as it is quite clearly unsustainable. Huge swathes of …
THE WINE REGION RECLAIMING PROSECCO FROM THE BULK BOYS Read More »
My first love in wine is always Piemonte. It’s where, about 15 years ago, I first stood in a vineyard and thought; “this is a bit of alright, isn’t it?” Over the years I’ve made my way through countless bottles of Barbera, Dolcetto, and Arneis, even the occasional Barolo or Barbaresco when the wallet stretched …
Someone once said that wine is a mixture of art, geography, science, and history. Like one of those things and you’ll like wine. Like all of them and you’ll be gripped for life. I’ll not lie, the jury’s still out on geography, but the rest of them I’m all over like a cheap suit. So …
I saw this one in the press this last week just gone, and I reminded myself about it today as I was chatting with a winemaker from Friuli, the spiritual home of top drawer Pinot Grigio. Asda, one of the big four supermarkets in the UK, have devised an interesting way of getting around the …
A wine I tried recently was a sparkling Zinfandel rosé from Blossom Hill. Blossom Hill is a massive American wine brand, churning out millions of bottles a year to the wine drinkers of the world. They specialize in crowd pleasers because, let’s be fair, they have to. Problem with crowd pleasers is that they’re usually …
