I’d love to be that person who can get a head start with jobs they need to do. But I’m just not that guy. Everything can be done last minute. I’m not actually sure why, maybe it’s cos I need the kick up the arse that the panic-induced-adrenaline gives you before I bother to do …
It’s a bumper hot year across Bordeaux so far this year. All the tick list of vine growing points have been ticked so far, and a big crop of ripe berries is expected. When it comes on the market next year, the 2015 vintage should be shaping up to be full of flavour.
On Friday night I popped down to Sainsbury’s in Camden to go pick up the food and wine for this weekend’s New Wine This Week. I have to admit I still haven’t done it as yesterday was the 17th of May and my Norwegian wife was in charge (it’s Norway’s national day). But whilst I …
For most people who go through the WSET program, it’s probably the first time they’ve been in a class room since the finished uni or college or school. It’s funny to get those first day back at school jitters when you’re in your thirties, but it happened!
I’m a master at putting things off. I was always one of those people who had that bit of coursework to do, given over 2 months before, and there I was a week before hand in trying to pluck up the will power to start. I’m not going to give myself too much stick for …
Burgundy is really one of those places that is great to use to explain a few more general things. Last post I was saying about terroir and how everywhere in the world has it and is affected by it, but Burgundy’s one of those places where it’s easy to highlight the big differences it makes. …
The more you drink wine or spend time at wine dinners or tastings or what-have-you, you’ll hear this term pop up. Terroir (pronounced tare-wahr). Obviously it’s a french word but it’s now used pretty much across the world to describe the same thing. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is… …well it’s everything really. Well let’s …
Burgundy is dominated by Pinot Noir and Chardonnay plantings. From a business point of view you’d be nuts not to make sure you had a finger in that marketing pie if you were a producer. With lots of different AC names you can use with these two grapes, most of the producers in Burgundy can …
I’d never really heard the expression before earlier this year, but apparently it’s a fairly well known one in wine circles. ABC. Anything But Chardonnay. It came about due to the influx of chardonnay wines coming in from all parts of the world, where it was used to benchmark new areas against the old. As …
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There’s this saying that’s called the “modern winemaking style”. By this people simply mean that the wine is produced so that it can be drunk young. So you walk into a shop, buy it off the shelf, take it home, and tuck straight in. That’s how a lot of wineries are doing it these days, …
