Franciacorta is a high-quality Italian sparkling wine made in the same way as Champagne using the traditional method with similar grapes

Well, your wine will only last a couple of days once you've opened it unless you take positive action!

In wine tasting, we ‘swirl’, ‘smell’ and 'slurp' wine to better evaluate the flavours, aromas characteristics and complexities of a wine.

My wine glass collection and glassware recommendations for wine lovers. I'm a wine lover so I do have a lot of glassware

Pinot Grigio is loved for its refreshing and crisp flavour, with hints of green apple and citrus.

How to stop your wine going to waste... Worried about good wine going to waste? How can you store your wine to ensure it goes to use?

Cabernet Sauvignon comes from Bordeaux in France and the Napa Valley in California but grapes from these regions can command high prices

Wine glass rules and my top tips! I have some important top tips when it comes to planning, prepping and protecting your beloved glassware

Wine & Beef #BritishBeefWeek It's British Beef Week, red wine lovers - this one is for you! Drinking wine with beef is a classic pairing..

Malbec is one of the most popular grape varieties in the UK and the perfect excuse to celebrate #MalbecWorldDay. Argentina has brought us...

It is common for people to put a teaspoon in the top of an open bottle of sparkling wine, as it's believed to keep the bubbles for longer...

It’s nearly Easter and time to stock up on chocolate and wine - hooray! But which chocolate should you pair with which wine?

An organic wine is a type of wine made from grapes that have been grown without the use of synthetic herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers.

Did you know that almost all wine has sugar in it? And that there’s more sugar in sparkling wine than in still?

I recently returned from a wine-focused trip to the incredible country of Argentina and I’d love to tell you about my experiences!

Wines of the Moment - E&W Wine Recommendations

You might have seen the words ‘old vines’ on labels or heard people mention the phrase - but what does it mean and why should we care?

L’Avenir in Stellenbosch is famous for making wonderful chenin blancs and beautiful expressive pinotage. These two grapes are famous varieties which are prominent in the South African market and L’Avenir shines a spotlight on these incredible varieties. The winemaker is the very talented Dirk Coetzee from the Garden Route in South Africa who has a cute little dog called Archie following him around the winery which hilariously jumps onto the barrels and pulls out the bungs fr

In last week’s blog I talked a little bit about ‘wine words’ - those all-important building blocks in the language of wine. But why do wine words matter? What benefit do we receive when we expand our wine vocabulary? We humans are creatures of habit. Studies have shown that families will choose the same set of sunbeds every day during a fortnight’s holiday (and will be disgruntled if they can’t use those same beds because someone else got their first!). It’s the same in the w

One of the things I love most of all about running corporate virtual wine tastings is helping people to find their wine words. So many corporate virtual wine tastings (and indeed, real life wine tastings) seem to in advertently talk down to people, or most of the content goes right over most of the audience’s head. That’s not a good event for anyone – either the presenter or the audience! Corporate virtual wine tastings should be fun. Most people don’t want to get too deep in