The Continuing Uglification of The Wine Trade

Being competitive is one thing, low down dirty dealing is another…

Good and Bad Wine Culture

Throw some ideas in the vat and let ‘em ferment…

Biodynamics - Back In The News

The first in a series about biodynamics…

Recent Additions To Our Portfolio

We didn’t get planning permission for these extensions to our list…

Jazzing Up Restaurant Wine Lists

Ideas to enliven dreary wine lists…

Vines, Whines and Strines - an Aussie revelation

If Albarino is Savagnin (and will they call it Savvy, and if so, what will they call Sauvignon?), can it be that darling grape of right-minded ockers and sheilas is something quite different. We give a xxxx to find out the truth behind the truth…

Skimming the Clogosphere

Some thoughts about the internet, blogging, technology and writing (in no particular order)…

Curieux and Curiouser

Odd’s bodkins! A strange Chenin from the Aveyron. Knowledge have we very little thereof…

More Powder To Their Elbows

A delicious fillet of April fish.

From Chardonnay Girl To Shiraz Chick

Women are different to what you expect. They like red wine for some crazy reason. The world, and Al Murray, pub landlord, profess shock and awe…

Saint-Romain Blanc Combe Bazin, Dom Chassorney

Another Fred Cossard wine that gets straight to the point…

What is the best wine?

It’s not the what, but the when, the how and the who with…