Matching Food and Wine: Curry!
Curry. We all love it. So what's the best wine to drink with it?! Here be answers. As well as a bit of chomping (sorry), mention of whipping (no idea how that came up) and of course delicious wines a...
22 Juli 202210min
Why Bother Matching Food and Wine? (Here's Why - and How)
Some people say choosing the right wine for your food (or vice versa) is too complicated. Or that it's all nonsense, so not worth bothering with - just go with whatever you fancy. We beg to differ - ...
14 Juli 202248min
Wine from the Arab World
Aghi Ourad is a Brit of Algerian descent who wants to change the way we think about wine from the 'Arab world' (his phrase). Places like Algeria and Lebanon, where wine production has a surprisingly ...
24 Juni 202254min
The World's BIGGEST Wine Competition
Fancy tasting 18,000+ bottles of wine in a week? Humping and dumping 73,000+ bottles? Herding 250+ international wine judges? Dodging bottle crushers and giant wormeries? And, after all that, the re...
10 Juni 202259min
Armenia's Ambition: ancient, conflicted, hopeful
Armenia is not the first country to spring to mind in terms of wine. But this is one of the most ancient winemaking cultures in the world. The broader Caucusus region - including Georgia, Armenia, A...
27 Maj 202255min
Tasting 1982 Bordeaux
Some wines or vintages achieve legendary status. The 1982s in Bordeaux are a case in point. So what's it really like to taste a bunch of 1982 clarets, 40 years on - featuring some of the best wines of...
13 Maj 202220min
Adventures in Dosage: the cherry on the sparkling cake
Did you know that sugar and brandy can be added to sparkling wine? Were you aware that champagne was originally a sweet fizz? And that it regularly had things like port, cognac, elderberry, kirsch and...
29 Apr 202256min
Fake Booze - Pet Nad to Yoda
What's this about the world's first 'pet nad' wine? Why has a wine-list-free restaurant been told to, 'stop being so bloody stupid'? Who is releasing the latest cynical glassware range? And, STOP PRE...
15 Apr 202217min
