explains that just like wineries, cooperages have a house style – meaning that no two are ever exactly alike. "Each cooperage toasts their barrels in a different way. A medium-plus toast from one cooper is not the same as the cooper down the street," he says. The best route to consi...
All wines, sparkling wines and brandies can be purchased here – whether as a gift or for yourself – and taken away. Alternatively, you can make your choice at home and we deliver. Our online shop is always open. We’ll gladly present our wines to groups of more than 12 people out...
a你是我认识的第一个外国朋友 希望你不要让我失望 You are the first foreign friend who I knew Hoped do not let me be disappointed[translate] aYou can give the host a bottle of wine as a gift only when you know that the host drink wine. 只有当您知道主人饮料酒时,您能给主人一个瓶酒作为...
the following that you've built up, and the experience that you have, as well – I think integrity is almost taken for granted. Also that ability, I guess, to be able to call it right. Often as a critic, you're tasting wines that are so, so young...
Tinto Cão, meaning ‘red dog’, top-quality black grape variety for the production of port. Having almost disappeared from the vineyards… films about wine films about wine. — As wine has become more deeply embedded in popular culture, not least in the US, so… ...
Daft is a particularly British, informal and only affectionately critical word meaning ‘silly’ or ‘foolish’ and perfectly describes the sort of phrases that have become so well worn as to be meaningless even if they were coined with good intentions. (I love the equally endearing British ...
GIFT 7 AWINECADDY Goes with RED WHITE A Champagne Stopper Champagne stoppers are excellent gifts for fans of sparkling wine. If you’ve uncorked your fair share of Sparkling Wine and Champagne bottles, you’ve probably noticed that it’s impossible to put the cork back in, as it expands as...
In fact, there was a thermal inversion during much of December and January, meaning that it was colder at home (at around 100m above sea level) than it was in the Dolomite mountains (at, say 1500m.) Alessandro Maule binding the vines in La Biancara’s Sassaia vineyard As with 2023...
I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’m so busy all the time. There’s always something pressing that needs to be done and seemingly fewer and fewer people to get it all done. So, just as I’m about to have a Calgon-take-me-away moment, Larry says “wanna drink some w...
is when all of those things are seamless. a wine being approachable, meaning, that wine takes a long time for it to be ready to drink. when you say approachable wine, it just means that it's very easy to drink, and not as complicated. i actually don't use any type of wine descrip...