I wasn’t always into wine. In fact I used to be a beer drinker – not craft beer either – I’m talking VB stubbies, even dabbling with the occasional Fosters … It’s a quite change from who I am today: someone intensely passionate about wine and half way through a globally recognised (and very demanding) wine Diploma. People often […]
Champagne holds a special place for all of us…it is the ultimate sparkling wine to pop to celebrate an event or milestone. Unfortunately the term champagne is often used to designate any sparkling wine but most people may not know that Champagne can only be called Champagne if it comes from the Champagne region in […]
Kalsarikännit: The Finnish word for sitting at home in your underwear and getting drunk. It might sound like a strange concept but on a recent trip to lapland in northern Finland we got to understand why. The sun rose at 10am set at 4pm tricking your body into wanting to go to bed […]
Iceland is cold and surprisingly icy which means it is perfect for a fortified wine to keep you warm. So on a recent trip to Iceland we picked up a bottle of Grahams 10 year old Tawny port that would not only help warm us up but also stay fresh as the spirit added to […]
n a recent trip to Northern Europe we wanted a wine that could stay fresh for up to a week and would help warm us up. The obvious choice was Port, a fortified wine from the Douro Valley in Northern Portugal. During the fermentation high alcohol spirit is added stopping the fermentation, leaving some residual sugar and resulting […]
