Cabernet sauvignon reigns supreme worldwide with 840,000 acres planted, which puts it well above second place merlot at 657,000.
It was not until 1996 that DNA evidence at the University of Californ...
I remember well the day we received a container of wine from New Zealand and discovered that a very popular Sauvignon Blanc was enclosed with a screw-cap.
Two popular Hamilton restaurants, that were f...
It was only when a communication from Australia came in that I realised that I would unfortunately miss a particularly important day to write about this month and to contemplate what our Queen, Prince...
A few weeks ago, in an article about hail damage, I mentioned that we would shortly feature a few very fine Rhône wines in our stores and that were part of the package when we became involved with Dis...
I should warn you, dear reader, that the article today will be more about a cause than details on the wines themselves.
Wine is about 85 per cent water and we are told that our brain is composed of ...
I first saw anti-hail nets while visiting Mendoza, Argentina. They were on frames that ran along the vine rows and could swing open, rather like an Andean condor spreading its 5ft wings (10ft span). ...
As I have spent much of the past couple of weeks watching the Fifa Women’s World Cup, my wife suggested that I write about wines made by females.
Few women would argue with the statement that their se...
Wikipedia tells us that “an extraordinary number of wines claim to be the first Super Tuscan” and I tend to agree, based on the claims of a few folks that I know.
Whoever it was, the fact is that ba...
This morning found me wandering around the office muttering to myself: “What am I going to write about this week?”
The suggestion was offered that half bottles might be a good idea and, so, here we ...
I call this a story about mavericks. I could have heeded my thesaurus and used nonconformists, eccentrics, individualists or even rebels, as I feel it fair to label the mentioned winemakers any of the...
