Wine News & Commentary

You need a story to sell wines, or so they say. The early History of Australian wine is the shortest story ever written; after a […]

Explorer 6 went into orbit on the 7th of August 1959 and on the 14th of August beamed to base the first ‘outer space’ image

Reading ‘Evans on Earth’ (Lothian press 1992) a biography of Len Evans set off reflections on how the wine business has evolved since the 1960s.

You can enjoy a drink in many ways and one pleasure of mine is mixing cocktails. I like the way you are in control, the

Wimbledon reminds me of the greatest ever squash player, Heather Blundell who did not lose a match from 1962 to 1981. I adored squash which

There are no rules to wine so drink what you like though a rounded drinker will learn to drink widely. Knowing the wines of the

Liv-ex, which describes itself as a global marketplace for the wine trade has released details of the increasing alcohol levels of wine in its database.

Good wine is the result of applied science and wine companies can say the best wines ever made are those now being sold. Sure, bad

Champagne mentionedi n an English comedy 31 years beore the Frencg clim a Benedictine monkinvented it.