Category: Feature

Lucy, Assistant Manager at Majestic Gloucester breaks up Loire into bitesize chunks The Loire Valley is located to the West of France. The River Loire is the longest River in France and the changing climates and winemaking techniques along the differing sub-regions make for a great variety of styles. There are 4 main sub-regions and […]

For the last few days I’ve been running a Facebook poll to find out what name English Sparkling Wine should take… if any at all! The Majestic debate has grown from a few snippets of news in the broadsheets, a call in on the radio and some blog posts. So what came of the poll? […]

If we were to summarise the wines and winemakers of New Zealand in a single word it would have to be ‘pioneering’. These two remote, diminutive islands have emerged in the past 40 years to be the source of a revolution in winemaking, focusing on pure, expressive, fruit-filled wines. Single vineyard rarities and a Majestic […]

We all know one – the dreaded wine snob. The wine snob may be a brother-in-law who won’t drink wine unless it’s from the most famous (translation: most expensive) wine regions in the world, or your boss who knows absolutely everything there is to know about every wine in the world (a sheer impossibility, we […]

White Burgundy has long been seen as the benchmark for world- class Chardonnay, but prices can be staggering. Why is white Burgundy so expensive? Burgundy has had several short vintages in a row, so supplies have been under pressure for a few consecutive years. With increasingly tight supplies – coupled with a jump up in […]