Mobile apps exist to make your life easier and better. When it comes to wine, this can mean a few different things: learn more about wine, helping you chose better wine, record your tasting experiences, get a better deal/price for your plonk, find expert ratings,…

Many people do not realize how much work and equipment is involved in making wine. As a winemaker, in Europe in particular, I would often get the question: “but what is it that you do, wine makes it itself doesn’t it?“. Well, not exactly… So…

Tasting life in a bottle labelled as 2007 Domaine de Fouassier Sancerre Mélodie. When my second daughter Mélodie was born in 2011, my old Sancerre vigneron friend Thibault Roger sent me over to New Zealand a bottle of this local cuvee named like my baby,…

France is known all over the world for producing some of the finest wines in the most picturesque vineyards. Here we have listed 10 of the most popular wine regions in the country– each with some unique characteristics that will make every wine-lover pack their…

Blanc de Noirs Champagnes are white wines made exclusively with the red grape varieties grown in the Champagne region. Most often, they are blended from Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, although some examples are varietal wines like some single vineyard sparkling Pinot Noirs. To find…

Did you know that Argentina is the only country that have original Malbec vines of true French heritage? A Long Tradition  & History In 1853, Michel A. Pouget – a French agronomist, who was hired to create and run the Quinta Normal of Mendoza, arrived…

Italy is one of the few countries that look even better in real life than it does in pictures, or on the silver screen, and their wine is no different. Incredibly, Italy is actually the birthplace of over 25 percent of the world’s fine wine…

Everything you’ve been wondering about Prosecco sparkling wine. We’ve gone through all the most common questions you have about Prosecco bubbles, to get you to understand the essence of this ultra-famous but sometimes misjudged Italian wine. For information about the National Prosecco week, read on…

While attending the 2016 Wine Bloggers Conference, I had the pleasure of meeting one of the great figures in the world of wine: Andrea Robinson MS. Andrea is one of 26 women that have passed the Master Sommelier examination in the whole world. She also has…

Bordeaux wines aren’t exactly renowned to be affordable ones! At least, that’s the reputation Bordeaux wines have acquired over the past decade or two, with the top estates now commanding very high, often speculative pricing. But let’s not forget that Bordeaux is the second biggest…