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Strauss & Co Auction The World’s Leading Fine Wines

July 4, 2023 Our Man On The Ground 0

Leading African fine art auction house Strauss & Co is making a highly rare offering to global wine collectors with a specialist online auction that is taking place between 3rd and 10th July in collaboration with WineCellar.co.za and sommelier […]

English Rosés for Summer

May 28, 2023 Our Man On The Ground 0

Nowadays, no wine cellar, fridge or National Rosé Day (June 10th) should ever be without an English rosé. You should always have some Hattingley Valley from Hampshire on hand. Or some Digby from Sussex or […]

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Exton Park Launch Pinot Meunier Rosé

October 3, 2022 Our Man On The Ground 0

Exton Park, the award-winning 60-acre Hampshire vineyard, has just launched a new single varietal wine, the Pinot Meunier Rosé Plot 4, which, with its unique terroir, pure chalk soils, meticulous growing and production methods, along […]

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Fifty One Degrees North – UK’s Most Expensive Sparkling Wine

September 26, 2022 Our Man On The Ground 0

Gusbourne Estate, based in Appledore in Kent, who own 16 vineyards across Kent and West Sussex, has just produced the UK’s most expensive sparkling wine and what it claims to be the most definitive expression […]

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Grenache Wine

September 16, 2022 Our Man On The Ground 0

Just a pub wine? Ideal with the blackboard steak and ale pie blackboard special and nine chips in a beer tankard? The go-to-gulpable-garnet down at your local gastro pub to soak up the microwaved goulash […]

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English Pinot Noir

August 15, 2022 Our Man On The Ground 0

How often do you make seasonal wild mushroom risotto and how many times do you come home to duck or game and a fridge in which someone has considerately placed a bottle of not very […]

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Sussex Wines

June 21, 2022 Our Man On The Ground 0

Sussex has been accorded special privileged status. The county’s sparkling wine has received official Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status, as approved by the Ministry for Farming, Fisheries and Food. A PDO identifies products that […]

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Blue Aurora Wine

June 15, 2022 Our Man On The Ground 0

There is only one way to celebrate National Blueberry Month and English Wine Week. That’s with England’s only commercially-produced blueberry wine. Brothers Stephen and James Long were born in Bythorn in Cambridgeshire before moving to […]

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Collectivino Wines

October 6, 2021 Our Man On The Ground 0

What’s the difference between you and Martin Stead and Toby Radcliffe? They stuck with their lockdown passion and are about to introduce Collectivino to world, whereas you have some souring bread and dusty arts and […]

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Austrian Grand Wine Tour

February 23, 2020 Our Man On The Ground 0

The Austrian Wine Marketing Board was back in London recently for their annual ‘Austrian Tasting London’ providing much inspiration to visit some of Austria’s wonderful wine growing regions. Something Oenophile Ramy Salameh discovered on a […]