Wine
Portuguese Wines for the Bank Holiday Weekend
With the long bank holiday weekend just around the corner you don’t need National White Wine Day, which was on 4th August, as an excuse to enjoy a few glasses of chilled white wine with […]
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Strauss & Co Auction The World’s Leading Fine Wines
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 […]
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English Rosés for Summer
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
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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English Pinot Noir
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
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
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 […]
England
Denbies Vineyard Hotel
Driving into Denbies Wine Estate with the early autumn sunshine on the vines, it is easy to think we are in France or Tuscany, not leafy Surrey just a short distance from our home in […]
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Viña Pomal Compromiso Launch
Being a fan of Spanish wine and in particular their Riojas, I was delighted to be invited along to Spanish restaurant Hispania just a stone’s throw away from The Bank of England in The City […]
California
A Little Sip Of Ojai
With its Mediterranean climate, indie-anchored charm, and mountains that epically turn pink at sunset, few places are less polarizing than the idyllic nest of restoration known as Ojai. Apt for a city named after the […]