OK, the Top 10 UK wine brands – here’s how they currently stand:- Rank Brand Owner 1 Hardys Constellation 2 Gallo E & J Gallo 3 Blossom Hill Percy Fox 4 Jacob’s Creek Pernod Ricard 5 Stowells Constellation 6 Wolf Blass Fosters EMEA 7 Lindemans Fosters EMEA 8 Banrock Station […]
Simon
An e-mail from David Williams, editor of Wine & Spirit, that thwopped into my In-Box earlier this year began thus. “We’re dong [sic] a ‘big issue’ in May, a kind of sister issue to our small producers number, focusing on the world’s biggest producers.” Since getting married a couple of […]
The things we do for love….OK, money
Found a bottle of Goldwater Cabernet/Merlot 1996 (from Waiheke Island off the coast of Auckland) murmuring on the rack earlier in the week and stood it up for tonight’s rib-eye. It comes from a period where most Kiwi winemakers looking at Bordo styles were OTT with both oak and extraction, […]
Striking Gold(water)
On the always-lively wine pages forum, a member recently asked a question that began ‘I’ve been researching wine-tasting terms…’ He then asked for opinions on a piece he’d done called ‘How to Talk About Wine’ [update – the link’s gone now…]. Let’s just take our wine hats off for a moment, […]
Baffled By Bullshit
The totally inspired USB wine tap may have been a work of fiction, but there’s nothing make-believe about The Wine Rack. While purists may complain that it doesn’t deliver wine at the correct serving temperature, it sounds perfect for Châteauneuf-du-Pap, Brabera d’Asti and of course Bristol Cream.
Fill yer boots, correction, boobs…
A huge vacuum has been left by the death last weekend of wine merchant Bill Baker. A man who seemed to take Monsieur Creosote from The Meaning of Life as a role model, he packed more life, not to mention food and wine, into his 53 years than anyone else […]