Still Wines from Champagne – Fizz’s Final Frontier

Still Wines from Champagne – Fizz’s Final Frontier

by | May 12, 2021 | Blog

Still Wines from Champagne – Fizz’s Final Frontier A wave of new releases from some of Champagne’s most famous houses – and growers – is shifting attention away from the region’s fizz and on to its still wines. Essi Avellan MW explores the world of Coteaux Champenois...
Bordeaux 2020

Bordeaux 2020

by | Apr 27, 2021 | Blog

Bordeaux 2020 Ten years on, will the 2020 vintage, alongside 2019 and 2018, make it another golden treble for Bordeaux, emulating 2010, 2009 and 2008? The buzz from Bordeaux is upbeat, bar the decline in volume, but with the wines, as yet, unsampled there are still...
Explaining the Wine Flavour Tree

Explaining the Wine Flavour Tree

by | Mar 31, 2021 | Blog

Explaining the Wine Flavour Tree Among wine professionals it is now widely understood that you don’t actually taste wine, you smell it and as such, wine appreciation is very much a cross-modal experience. There are only five ‘tastes’ that can be detected on the tongue...