We were delighted to walk away with 2 trophies from last night’s Decanter Awards: The overall ‘Wine Merchant of the Year’ and the Decanter Readers Award for ‘Best Large Merchant’. This is the third year running that we have won both of these awards which we have to admit we’re very proud of! The judges had [...]
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Jane MacQuitty’s Summer Rosé Recommendations
Wednesday 19 May 2010 – 13:27
Jane MacQuitty recently released her 30 Best Rosé Wines in The Saturday Times and we were very pleased to note she was particularly impressed with 7 of our summer rosés. Now that we have had at least 12 hours of sun this summer and with plenty of warm weather predicted for this weekend – we [...]
Chateau Batailley releases
Tuesday 11 May 2010 – 10:36
Finally an en primeur release of one of the top wines, one that we are very confident about and unhesitatingly recommend. Chateau Batailley is an archetypal Pauillac – blackcurrant-scented with a fresh mid-weight character. Key to its attraction is this freshness. It is a drink rather than an academic exercise after all. To view all [...]
Save the wine column
Monday 15 February 2010 – 11:30
Sunday broadsheet The Observer is cutting back on its coverage of wine, with wine trade publication Harpers reporting that yesterday’s column was the last full-length piece from Tim Atkin MW. Tim has written for The Observer since 1993, and although he will continue to write for the paper’s Food Monthly supplement, the decision has caused [...]
The Wine Gang’s Autumn Review
Monday 14 September 2009 – 9:35
The Wine Gang (www.thewinegang) provides the UK’s most comprehensive coverage of wines available for sale in the UK. Formed by five of the UK’s sharpest palates and best-known wine commentators, the Gang is Tim Atkin MW of The Observer, Tom Cannavan of wine-pages.com, Anthony Rose of the Independent, Joanna Simon of House & Gardens and [...]
The wines that launched 1000 ships?
Friday 11 September 2009 – 10:12
Loyal customers of Wine & Beer World could be forgiven for looking back on last September with a slight shudder. Today marks the one year anniversary of the fire in the Channel Tunnel which, although relatively minor, did throw a rather large spanner into the works of many people’s travel plans for the festive season. [...]
Then there were 280!
Tuesday 8 September 2009 – 17:46
8 New Masters of Wine (MW’s) have just been announced with the release of the ‘Institute of Masters of Wine’ exam results, that’s still only a total of 280 MW’s worldwide which is testament to the rightly rather tough syllabus! We have our very own Master of Wine student, Majestic Battersea’s Manager, Simon Milroy. So [...]
It ‘Vin de Pays’ To Know
Monday 29 June 2009 – 10:07
An interesting bit of news for you. Come the start of August, Vin de Pays - the wide-reaching term for French wine between table wine and appellation-approved quality wine - will be no more. In its place will be the new Indication Géographique Protegée system – designed to give current Vin de Pays producers a foot-up to sit alongside existing [...]
Rosé-tinted specs…
Monday 1 June 2009 – 9:18
It would be true to say that there are many things that divide opinion amongst wine consumers. Oaked or un-oaked, ‘malo’ or single ferment, cork or screwcap. Mixed triviality weightings in the wider context perhaps, but each is important in understanding the nuances of the wine in bottle. An understanding of how a wine is [...]
Severe hail hits Bordeaux
Friday 15 May 2009 – 11:15
An interesting news item on Decanter.com caught my attention this morning, with hailstorms damamging vineyards in St-Emilion and the southern Médoc. As the article points out, it’s too early for this to affect quality, but damage to the vine’s delicate new growth this early in the season could potentially lead to a reduced crop for [...]
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