My wife and I recently did a rather special favour for someone and, in appreciation, he gave us two really exciting bottles of wine from Argentina.
I will lead off by describing them, and a few more ...
Wine lovers have a very eventful month ahead of them.
Celebrations begin on June 18 with World Chenin Blanc Day, prosecco is so popular that it rates a whole week, starting June 20; rosé cannot be lef...
At Burrows Lightbourn we often get asked, “What is new?”
The answer today is “rather a lot”.
There will be no theme as I discuss seven wines from four countries that range from $19.90 to $125.
The ma...
Thursday is designated International Chardonnay Day and so please let me suggest a few to celebrate this occasion.
As much as I would like to say that this is the world’s most planted white wine gra...
The very first wines were rosé.
The ancients crushed red and white grapes together and, as early as the sixth century, the Greeks bought vines to southern France where they made pink wines. By the tim...
If I mention Bordeaux, it would be understandable if your first thoughts were “too expensive and too complicated”.
In reality, this land of historic villages, ancient Roman churches and over 6,000 ch...
Harvard professor Steven Pinker is famously known for saying that music is auditory cheesecake for the mind.
I hope he will not be offended if I suggest that wine works similarly for olfactory and ta...
Happy Shakespeare’s birthday.
I only know this as it also the day that my last-born son chose to enter this world. So that makes tomorrow, April 24, International Sauvignon Blanc Day. But before we ...
As I usually do on a Monday morning, I have selected a few CDs, cranked up the stereo and now am doing my best to write some interesting stories about wine.
Tomorrow is very special as it is the annua...
As I write this on Monday morning the memory of the wine that we opened last night, because it was Easter, is just so fresh.
Now that a few of our words are included in the latest printing of the Ox...
