Vigneron, Negociant and Cooperative are all elements of wine terminology that can confuse but are simple to demystify. In fact knowledge of each is often vital to finding the best tasting and buying opportunities because each is a different type… Read More ›
“The pre wine tasting questionnaire from the cruise liner’s sommelier asked us to rate a number of grapes on a scale of 1-5, and bizarrely all of the ladies in our tasting group marked Chardonnay DOWN quite heavily! Undeterred the… Read More ›
I will always remember someone in Nepal saying to me “I have no idea how to make a quality chicken curry but I know what one tastes like!” Sounds like he was into Stoic philosophy as it’s a sentence that… Read More ›
Imagine I offered you a glass of Pommard or a Meursault, a Volnay or a St Aubin which would you choose? Or do you buy your wine on the basis of red v white, Chardonnay v Sauvignon Blanc, Australia v… Read More ›
Combining a wine tasting with a cellar visit in Burgundy, especially in Beaune, is an absolute must for visitors here. It gives you a sense of the history as well as the scale of the wine making operations not only… Read More ›
A personal story of a personal journey over 50 years tasting wines from Glasgow supermarkets in the 1960s to Premier Cru Pommard in Burgundy.
Originally posted on The Year of Sharon :
So tonight we went to the Wine Society tasting evening hosted at the beautiful Pittville Pump Rooms in Cheltenham. A Christmas present from dad and certainly too good an opportunity to pass when…
