Wine Articles and News

What is Corked Wine?
Keeping a wine bottle sealed is probably the most important factor when it comes to maintaining a good wine.

Wine Tasting Component I:
Look The first step you have to undertake in wine tasting is visual. 1. Fill up the glass up to 1/3 of its volume; never fill it more than half; 2. Hold the glass by the stem. Initially you may find this too pretentious but there are good reasons for it

The First Rule of Wine Drinking
Don’t listen to what all the self appointed wine buffs and wine snobs say – it’s what you like that counts.

Wine News

US threatens to block all Brunello imports The United States has threatened to block all imports of Brunello di Montalcino from 9 June.

Record-breaking Bordeaux 05 Decanter tasting Decanter's first tasting of the newly-bottled 2005 Medocs produced a record-breaking 25 awards - only two of them First Growths.

Parker rebukes top properties over Bordeaux 2005 Robert Parker has released his scores for the first tastings of the just-bottled 2005 Bordeaux ? with another broadside at high prices from the ?museum pieces' that are the great wines.

Withnail director drank 200 bottles of fine wine in two weeks The director of cult comedy film Withnail & I drank 200 bottles of blue chip Bordeaux in just two weeks, he has revealed.

China to become leading wine producer Chinese wine will conquer the world in terms of volume and fine wine, a recent study suggests.