by Anne | Sep 30, 2016 | Writing
30th September 2016 As the 2016 wine harvest gets fully underway across the Northern Hemisphere, I reminisce about my own harvest experience earlier this year… In February of this year, I completed an important rite of passage. I worked in a winery for the first time....
by Anne | Mar 8, 2017 | Writing
Wednesday 8th March 2017 Today on International Women’s Day, the world is celebrating and championing women, and the wine business (traditionally a male-dominated industry like so many) is no different. It seemed appropriate therefore that I interview an up-and-coming...
by Anne | Jul 3, 2017 | Writing
Tuesday 4th July 2017 There is an abundance of such amusing quotations to be found online, many of which sum up precisely the frustration we wine-lovers face when it comes to staying slim. Not only do we love wine, but we usually also love its natural bedfellow...
by Anne | Jul 10, 2020 | Beginners' wine tips, Wine Tasting
Hope you’ve enjoyed some good wines recently. Did you knock them back or did you spend a little time savouring what was in the glass? Until you know the proper technique for assessing a wine, it can seem a bit ridiculous to bother doing anything but drink it!...
by Anne | Jul 17, 2020 | Beginners' wine tips, Wine Tasting
Hope you’ve enjoyed some delicious wine recently. Following on from my video on how to taste wine, I thought I’d go into a little more detail about why it helps to bring air into your mouth whilst you’re tasting and to get the aromas of the wine up...
by Anne | Jul 31, 2020 | Beginners' wine tips, Wine Terminology
This is a question I get all the time. You may already know what ‘full-bodied’ means, or you may ‘sort of’ know what it means from having seen it a lot on wine back labels….or you may have no clue at all! In which case, let me enlighten...
by Anne | Aug 21, 2020 | Beginners' wine tips, Wine Tasting
One of the most frequent complaints I hear from those new to wine is ‘but Anne, why do wine experts always list so many aromas when they smell a wine? How can a wine possibly smell of all those things when it’s made from grapes?!? All I can smell is...
by Anne | Sep 4, 2020 | Beginners' wine tips, The Price of Wine
Today we’re talking about why some wines are so expensive. This is another of those questions I get asked a lot. But how expensive are we talking? For example, a quick look at Wine Searcher reveals that the average per-bottle price of Château Le Pin, a...
by Anne | Sep 25, 2020 | Beginners' wine tips, Organic Wine
I hope you’ve enjoyed a good glass or two recently. Maybe one of those was an organic wine. It’s a term we’re seeing more and more these days, just like ‘vegan’, which we’ve discussed before. What does it mean, though? As usual, the...
by Anne | Jun 11, 2021 | Beginners' wine tips, Wine Basics
The above is a question I get asked a lot, especially now that we are seeing the term ‘vegan’ more and more on wine labels and on restaurant wine lists. Why, wine-lovers ask me, is it necessary to specify that a wine is vegan? Isn’t it made from...
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