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Street Food & Artisan Drinks at the Real Wine Fair

  The Real Wine Fair highlights wines which are made with respect for terroir and the provenance for the ingredient. We are therefore delighted to be working again this year with artisan food...

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Jon Wyand Wins Errázuriz Wine - Photographer Of The Year 2014 Award

Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2014 Renowned wine photographer Jon Wyand was announced as the winner of the Errázuriz Wine Photographer of the Yearaward at the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of...

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Villa Maria hosts an intimate lunch for Cilla Black in honour of her upcoming...

Official wine partner to BAFTA, Villa Maria wines from New Zealand, was delighted to host an intimate lunch for television entertainer, actress and singer Cilla Black yesterday at fellow BAFTA...

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CONDÉ NAST JOHANSENS ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE CHAMPAGNE TAITTINGER UK WINE...

Condé Nast Johansens is delighted to announce the winners of the Champagne Taittinger UK Wine List Awards 2015.  The winners were revealed at the 33rd annual Awards Dinner held at The May Fair Hotel in...

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Fontanasanta, Manzoni Bianco, Academy Club, Soho

When London’s only “art monger” invited me to lunch at the Academy Club, I could have been forgiven for expecting to be handed a painted mackerel. Instead, I am pleased to report, the experience was a...

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Champagne Video Tasting Feature:

Watch our filmed tasting notes from the annual CIVC wine tasting in Westminster, London. Distinguished tasters and producers talk openly and candidly about what's in the glass and why you should try it!

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Spanish wine tip: Gran Caus, 1999

We visited the Wines from Spain 2016 show in London recently and bumped into the man behind ‘The Write Taste’, food and alcohol journalist, Robin Goldsmith.

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Basque country wine gets serious: Txakoli

Txakoli has long been the secret of the Basque Country. A wine that is often a little a course but perfectly suited to the seafood pintxos being served up all over the region. In recent years, Txakoli...

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Biodynamic Champagne and the human body

Is this pioneer of biodynamic winemaking rediscovering the true wine of the ancients, associated with the elixir vitae?

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Meet Organic #Champagne Grower Vincent Laval

Meet Vincent Laval from Champagne Georges Laval in Cumiéres - organic producer and neighbour of Hervé Jestin

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Coteaux Champenois: Red wine in Champagne?

Why is everyone talking about “Bouzy Rouge” in Reims? Still wines from Coteaux Champenois are delicious and the Grand Cru village of Bouzy has been developing cult wine status for sometime. Find out...

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Tasting Graham’s Six Grapes Reserve Port

Listen to Charlotte Symington from Symington Family Estates talk us through this Graham’s Six Grapes Reserve Port. In Part 2 Charlotte introduces us to tawny port, so stay tuned!

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Clovis Taittinger: Freedom in the City of London?

Clovis Taittinger celebrates becoming a Freeman of the City of London whilst giving us a tasting note for the legendary Comtes de Champagne, 2006. How does such a drink make one feel? Watch and see!

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Ukrainian Bubbly- Shabo, Veja, Grand Cru 2013

We don't hear much about Ukrainian wines, let alone sparkling wines. So it was great to catch-up with Ewan Lacey at the London Wine Fair & get this intro!

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"That's what great champagne is all about!"

Discussing the "global warming", "the golden age of wine" and "what great champagne is all about", in the 1st part of this interview with acclaimed wine author, Michael Edwards.

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Contino 2013: tasting with Spain's Jesús Madrazo

Contino is a small single vineyard estate that is part of the Cvne family of high quality benchmark Spanish wines from the Rioja region. Jesús Madrazo is the widely respected winemaker at Contino and...

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Tasting Gianni Gagliardo Barolo 2011

It was a pleasure to catch up Elena Gargani at the London Wine Fair recently and taste her range of Italian wines. In particular the Gianni Gagliardo Barolo 2011 stuck out as fantastic wine for...

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Don Maximiano Founder's Reserve 2013, Errazuriz

Chilean wine is breaking into markets all over the world and disrupting them with a huge combination of great value, high quality and variation. Errazuriz is one of the leading brands exporting wine...

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Laure Colombo: La Belle De Mai 2012, Saint Peray

Laure Colombo is the daughter of esteemed Cornas / Rhone producer, Jean-Luc Colombo. As the head winemaker, Laure has a strong connection with the terroir that she is working with.  This is film is a...

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Watch: Michael Edwards on English Sparkling Wine

With a long and distinguished archive of personal expertise in tasting champagne, Michael Edwards takes a couple of minutes to reflect on the English Sparkling Wines that are stealing many headlines in...

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