NWTW #54 – Time to vote on what you want for C!
Amarone and Blanc De Blancs done and dusted, lots of great wine and food had already. It’s now February, Dry January’s over, no excuses now to get stuck in!
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NWTW #54 – What Could C Be For?
We’ve rinsed through the letter A and B, and already powering into the second month of 2015! Amarone and Blanc de Blancs have been great weeks so far, but what’s in store for the letter C?
NWTW #53 – Time to vote on what you want for B!
New Wine This Week 2015 got off to cracker with Amarone. Would I be saying that had my friend Dom’s culinary skills not nailed the food pairing? Probably yeah, but it was still great together! It’s the letter B this fortnight, and the suggestions have been coming thick and fast over the twittersphere. Some are …
#NWTW Week 26: The Verdict On Spanish Rosé
I’m still struggling to say “Spanish Rosé”. It’s kind of like saying “british sausages”, and my experiences of the three rosés I drank this weekend were as far different as cumberland and black pudding. Having said that, compared to the sad continental crap you get at holiday breakfast buffets (still on sausages here sorry), they …
#NWTW Week 26: Meaty Rosés From Spain
I said in the last post that the rosés made from the bleeding process tend to be that little bit more “meaty” than others. Sounds a bit of a funny way of describing a wine doesn’t it? So I guess I need to explain what I meant by that and how you’re going to see …
#NWTW Week 26: How They Make Rosé (In Northern Spain)
Firstly, sorry this has taken so long to post. This should have been out yesterday but with my first day back from a lovely long weekend in Barcelona, I was…er…mostly walking round in a complete haze. The nice thing about doing Spanish rosé is that it’s so open in terms of what you’re buying. The …
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#NWTW Week 26: Rosado From Spain (Part Two)
Well it’s official everyone. We are exactly half way through 2014 with NWTW Week 26. As Ant has said earlier, my shameless shift of last week to Cava to coincide with my weekend in Barcelona has not stopped us from sticking to Spain this week. We’re going to leave it a fairly open one this …
#NWTW Week 25: So What’s So Different About Cava?
Yeah this is one of the hardest questions to answer when you’re in the early stages of your wine drinking. A glass of bubbly is a glass of bubbly, right? How many of you refer to every sparkling wine you drink as Champagne?
#NWTW Week 16: Zinfandel, The USA’s Very Own Grape…Almost!
One of the things we’ve tried to do in NWTW is to go round the wine-making world and pick out the grapes that really define the country we’ve picked for that week. For our first visit to the USA we had to go for Zinfandel. It’s only grown in the USA and has become a …
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#NWTW Week 6: An Intro Into Portugal
I suppose when you think about Portugal, it’s all about sunny holidays, great surf, and a few golf resorts. When you think about what the national drink (from an export point of view I guess) is, you’d be right in saying Port. The sweet and fortified wine effectively invented by the British merchants in the …