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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 in the gold and platinum medal territory. I have y...

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 left out on June 25. Fortunately, Burrows Lightbourn ...

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 market-leading port producer of Graham’s has come up...

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 grape, I cannot find definite proof that it exceeds t...

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 time the Romans landed in Provence they had heard of ...

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 chateau properties is now offering many very good va...

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 taste. I am sure that the reasoning behind his remar...

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 get to that I wish to share some sad and unfortuna...

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 annual World Malbec Day. Sadly, our little island has c...

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 Oxford English Dictionary I feel that I can safely s...

Not knowing what in the world to expect I have just stocked up on groceries and included a ham that we will certainly have over the Easter weekend. I confess to not having made a double-headstick “roundy”, as I did for much of my life, but I have s...

Spring has sprung, the days are longer and wine requirements are changing. It is time for the latest vintage of a classic favourite and we have 2019 Chateau D’Esclans Whispering Angel Rosé. Created by Sacha Lichine following his acquisition of Châte...