Wines from Armenia
Zorik Gharibian, the founder of Zorah Wines, is a man with a big dream – to put Armenian wines back on the global map after years of neglect. Hearing him…
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Margaret River Wines
This week, I discovered that I can’t afford Margaret River wines. Or at least, not the ones I’d really love to drink. Margaret River – the pocket of land below…
Xinomavro – a Greek wine to seek out
Xinomavro – putting Greek reds back on the international stage Xinomavro (ksee-no-mav-ro) is a red grape predominantly from Naoussa in Macedonia, northern Greece. It is grown in other parts of…
The Winery UK – great place for German wines in London
Oberwesel and river Rhine We decided to focus on German wines – specifically the Rhinegau and Rhinehessen regions – last wine club (any excuse to serve curryworst and German potato…
Croatian wines – great value and delicious wines
Croatian Wines If I’m honest, I went to our wine club’s Croatian wine tasting thinking it would be interesting but I wouldn’t love the wines. I came away having…
Wines from Piemonte, Italy
I’ve always loved Gavi wines, the lovely crisp, dry, mineral Cortese wine from Piemonte in the north-west corner of Italy, so I was really excited about focusing on Piemonte wines…
Burgundy
One of the first regions we visited in wine club was Burgundy, home, arguably, to some of the greatest wines in the world, including Chablis, Mersault, Puligny- and Chassagne Montrachet,…
Greek wines
The real surprise for me in the last two years of wine club was the evening we spent drinking Greek wine. This was Lea’s suggestion – her name comes from…
Austerity, or good value wines
‘Austerity’, or good value wines was this month’s wine club theme: not necessarily cheap wines, but ones that offer incredibly good value for the quality of wine.…
Wine club
In our wine club, we’ve visited the big wine producing countries: Spain, France, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the US and Italy. Sometimes we’ve done an introduction to a country…
