Work out your festive food and wine matches
In spite of coronavirus, Christmas plans are still being made and menus planned for festive meals including selecting suitable wines to accompany them.
Our wine expert: Light and fruity or intense and meaty red wines from the Barbera grape
Barbera is an Italian grape variety that has been planted in Italy for many centuries and many vines are over one hundred years old and are still producing fruit. It is thought to have originated in the northern Italian wine region of Piemonte where it is still extensively grown in the Monferrato Hills and is also widely grown throughout Lombardy especially in the Oltrepo Pavese area.
Our wine expert: Light and fruity or intense and meaty red wines from the Barbera grape
Barbera is an Italian grape variety that has been planted in Italy for many centuries and many vines are over one hundred years old and are still producing fruit. It is thought to have originated in the northern Italian wine region of Piemonte where it is still extensively grown in the Monferrato Hills and is also widely grown throughout Lombardy especially in the Oltrepo Pavese area.
Matching the right wines with autumnal meals
Autumn is a season full of spectacular colours of yellows, oranges and reds in our gardens and countryside though the days are shorter with cool temperatures, wet rainy days interspersed with breathtakingly fresh sunny days with blue skies.
Rioja: new and old…
If you like robustly fruity red wines with a soft fruity spiciness, then Rioja is the wine for you.
Chilean wines offer quality and value
As a wine producer Chile is gaining in reputation now that the investment in both vineyard and winery has meant consistently good quality wines at all price points.
Time to try Bordeaux?
There has traditionally been much mystique surrounding wines from Bordeaux in South West France.
Wine and cheese – a perfect pairing
As a cheese and a wine lover I often enjoy the two together as an easy light meal in itself or to finish a meal. It’s not easy to find the right wine to complement the cheese though as both cheese and wine have flavours and textures that change with age, temperature and the moment!
In the summertime when the weather is hot...
If you have decided on a staycation this year, why not travel through the wines you enjoy? Many of us have enjoyed cooking and the pleasure of some good wines during lockdown; so, through the summer period why not think about the wines you might be drinking in your holiday destination.
Explore the Chardonnay renaissance
Chardonnay is back after the “anything but Chardonnay” phase. We’re now enjoying wines made from this grape again after it gained a bad reputation in the
