A new welsh vineyard , Ancre Hill in Monmouth has won recognition for its first production of a still white [...]
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Good to see the wine business keeping up with the latest trends – such as independent wine merchants Yapp Brothers who have developed an App (application) for the iPhone and iPod Touch – so you can browse their list of French regional wines in your hand. [ November 12, 2010 to November 14, 2010. ] Now in it’s 6th year The Wine Show from 12-14 November 2010 will be at London’s Olympia, co-located with MasterChef Live (previously known as BBC’s London Good Food Show! and cunningly timed to enable you to start detailed planning for Christmas!! The 2010 budget on Wednesday 24 March is widely expected to increase duty on wines and spirits AGAIN! Columnist Simon Hoggart has a new book out with a title to match a strongly shared sentiment : Life’s Too Short to Drink Bad Wine: 100 wines for the discerning drinker. Simon who is a political writer for the Guardian and wine columnist for the Specator magazine, is perhaps more of a wine-lover than a [...] Acerbic, consumer-friendly wine critic Malcolm Gluck publishes a new book – “The Great Wine Swindle” on 18 November 2009. Malcolm Gluck is one of the nation’s best known wine critics and a voice of authority on all things concerning wine. His new book is intended to reveal the snobbery associated with wine today and how [...] An interesting reflection on the times, this time in the Financial Times (23 March 2009) Galicia in northern Spain is a little known area with its wines and food even less known. But now independent wine and food merchant Flavours of Spain has extended its range of fine wines with two UK exclusives from Galicia :- The last episode of BBC4′s “Wine” series goes behind the scenes of the International Wine Challenge (IWC) “the most comprehensive and influential blind tasting in the world” [ February 23, 2009; 9:00 pm; ] The second episode of BBC4′s series “Wine” takes a look at the making of the 2008 vintage at Chateau Margaux in Bordeaux. The episode entitled “The Faith” refers to the necessary belief and the next vintage will retain the almost magical qualities that make this first growth wine so special. The film reportedly focuses on [...] Writing on his blog Jim’s Loire, Jim Budd mentioned the number of ‘out of stocks’ in the Loire section and finished the post with [ February 16, 2009; 9:00 pm; ] The BBC is running a short series, innovatively entitled “Wine”, although it is as much about people as wine. This documentary series of 3 episodes goes behind the scenes in the wine industry and is narrated by Matthew Macfadyen, starting on BBC4 TV on Monday 16 February 2008 at 9pm (with various re-transmissions) . The first [...] |
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