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May is National Wine Month

Supported by the Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET) May 2011 is National Wine Month! and come with a new website: www.maketimeforwine.org/

The new website is designed to take the average wine drinker beyond their normal wine boundaries and explore, discover and enjoy the wide variety of wines available in the UK. It will [...]

Wadhurst’s Cellar in the Castle?

Independent Wine Merchants The Secret Cellar has opened a new store in the grounds of Wadhurst Castle in Kent [...]

Welsh Vineyard wines sparkling award

A new welsh vineyard , Ancre Hill in Monmouth has won recognition for its first production of a still white wine [...]

The Yapp App!

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.

And they are not alone – traditional merchants [...]

Wine Show 2010 moves to Olympia

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!! Your ticket will give you entrance to both Shows. That’s two Shows for [...]

Last chance before Budget rises!

The 2010 budget on Wednesday 24 March is widely expected to increase duty on wines and spirits AGAIN!

Whilst the increases will only apply to new imports and withdrawals from bonded warehouses after the budget, many merchants will be holding some duty-paid stocks so you should have a week or so to grab a [...]

Life’s too short to drink bad wine!

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 new Gluck Book – Great Wine Swindle

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 [...]

Beaujolais Tasting in Saffron Walden

Fleurie Tasting This Saturday! (11 April 2009)

Fleurie from Ch Raousset

Joseph Barnes Wines has a tasting of Fleurie – one of the best Beaujolais Cru wines from France – a great opportunity to taste proper Beaujolais rather than the gimmicky “Nouveau” – a different wine in all respects in my opinion.

Having [...]

Sending Bordeaux back

Bottles of Chateau Petrus

An interesting reflection on the times, this time in the Financial Times (23 March 2009)

British wine merchants are selling fine wine back to merchants in Bordeaux and exporting it to Asia as domestic demand for the most expensive wine slumps and sterling weakens against the euro.

Tom Hudson, [...]