Six things I learned from working in a winery

Six things I learned from working in a winery

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....
Meet an inspirational woman in wine

Meet an inspirational woman in wine

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...
Staying slim: a wine-lover’s experiment

Staying slim: a wine-lover’s experiment

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...
How to taste wine like a pro

How to taste wine like a pro

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!...
Try this aroma trick at home

Try this aroma trick at home

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...
But isn’t all wine vegan?

But isn’t all wine vegan?

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...