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French wines you need to be buying. Why Alsace Riesling should bee on your dinner table tonight, learn more about French wine with me.

Why do you taste the wine first in a restaurant? What are you expected to do in a restaurant when you smell and taste the wine? How do you recognise if a wine is off by the smell? Here’s a quick vid to understand what you’re doing and nail it like a ninja. 

Here's a quick 45 second video to answer your questions about vegan wine. Not all wines are vegan, what's the difference?

Ribera Del Duero is a Spanish wine region, north of Madrid: Ribera on the river Duero (a.k.a The Douro in northern Portugal, where Port is made) There’s a lot of sun here to ripen the grapes but grapes that ripen too quickly will result in simple wines. Enter our complexity hero: the vineyards are located 2,000 ft above sea level which means the nights are exceptionally cold. This slows down the ripening so the grapes have plenty of time to develop complex,

Hermitage is a tiny, steep hill in Northern Rhone and the birthplace of Syrah (aka Shiraz). Although, a small portion of whites are produced here too. These red wines are black as blood 🖤, complex and bold. To let the spikey tannins turn to fine dust and the porcupine acid become a fresh, playful bounce in the mouthfeel, the reds are usually aged for a 🕰 decade minimum before opening.

Like all wine grapes, Riesling has the potential to be steely-bone-dry or honey sweet. But back in the supersounds of the 70s, Germany was totally digging the sweet thangs and that’s pretty much all we coul...

Have you seen this written on wine labels and wondered what it means? #winedictionary #wineblend #winegrapes #cépage #cepage #wineeducation

If you haven’t indulged in winter’s cheese harvest yet, then get your groove on. It may be Les Mis outside, but we have Vacherin until March.Vacherin is a 🇫🇷 French/Swiss🇨🇭 wash rind cow's milk (French vache, "cow") cheese and is only produced in the winter months.

~ How to order great wine in a restaurant ~What's the sweet spot price-point on a wine list? Is house wine good value? Which countries/regions will give you the best pay off? Check out the video for these answers 👀

Why can you buy a bottle of Prosecco for a fiver, whereas most UK sparkling wines are about £25? This question comes up all the time. Those who have tried UK wine love it, but the price can be a little scary. Daunting even, to take a risk on. What’s the dealio? Check out the vid to shine some light on the matter. UK wine is well worth splashing out on, we just need to understand what goes on behind the scenes.   

Have you seen the Vegan logo on a bottle of wine and thought, ‘What the? Aren’t all wines vegan?’ It’s an interesting topic and pretty speedy to explain.IT’S ALL IN THE FILTERMost wines look like hazy dishwa...

Top 5 Tips for Bordeaux WinesBordeaux wine can be fantastic - but there's a whole whack of generic, flavourless stuff to wade through to find it.Here's some basics to look out for on wine labels to get you s...