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When you wander into a wine shop these days and you’re after a Merlot or a Chardonnay or something like that, you take it for granted that what’s in the bottle is actually what’s on the label. Years of study at research labs, and in the vineyards, have left most growers in no doubt as […]

Few weeks back we had the Wines of Portugal trade tasting here in London. Yours truly got asked very kindly to do a bit of tasting and judging on behalf of the organisers. Myself and fellow UK wine-o’s Helena Nicklin (The Winebird) and David Kermode (Mr Vinosaurus) floated around from table to table and tasted

When I started doing a blog and I started getting invited to trade tastings I remember being a bit floored by some of the cynicism and jadedness of some of the proper wine journalists. I was coming out of nearly 10 years of office work that didn’t suit me and that on the whole I

Walking away from a well-established family business is tough. Moving away from your family and friends and setting up in a far flung part of the country is tough. Setting up a winery is tough. So why on earth did Stefano “Steve” Lubiana do all three at once? You’d have to be nuts!

I wrote a blog a bit ago about heading over to the Millesime Bio, a massive Organic wine expo in Montpellier. 3 massive hangers full of producers of organic, biodynamic, and natural wines, and I made it round about less than 1% of them! My previous blog was about the women at Castel D’Age in