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Autumn wines to savour
As summer gradually drifts into autumn and leaves start to turn from green into a dazzling array of reds, oranges and golds, we tend to crave more textural, weightier wines with a little more spice. Rather than reaching for a light, thirst-quenching white or rosé that was just the ticket on a hot summer’s day, autumn is a great time to
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Celebrate International Women’s Day by Raising a Glass to Wine’s Female Trailblazers
What better day is there than International Women’s Day to raise a toast to the inspirational women in wine who have helped shape, what has traditionally been, a male-dominated industry? There have been so many trailblazers that it is impossible to put together a comprehensive list. However, here are three dynamic women who have broken down
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South American Wines with Altitude
In recent years, a trend has emerged where winemakers have been increasingly using the term “high-altitude” on their wine labels as a major selling point. This has especially been the case in the South American wine-producing countries of Chile and Argentina which sit on either side of the snow-capped Andes mountain range. Vines
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Australia’s Limestone Coast: The Secret’s in the Soil
It is all too easy to generalise about Australian wines particularly if you remember the brash, oaky white butter-bombs and jammy, high-alcohol reds that were the height of fashion a few decades ago. Too often, wine drinkers still perceive Aussie wines as straightforward and lacking in complexity. However, with its vast size, enormous
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Viña VIK – A Chilean Winery Putting the “Whole” into “Holistic”
Tremendous changes are taking place in the Chilean wine industry. The long held perception of Chile has been that it is a source of consistent, competitively priced wines at the value end of the spectrum. Chile hasn’t automatically sprung to mind as a producer of some of the world’s finest wines. That is until now. A new
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Schloss Johannisberg: Celebrating 300 years of Riesling during 31 Days of German Riesling
Happy 300th 'Riesling' Birthday!
For the last 300 years Schloss Johannisberg has been a leading producer of sensational Riesling wines. One of the first estates in Germany to convert to single-varietal viticulture in 1720 and then pioneering (by accident) the infamous late harvest (Spätlese) style of Riesling, Schloss Johannisberg occupies a
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