
October 1, 2018
Drink Veggie!
It might be surprising to learn that not all wine is suitable for vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. Our simple guide helps you understand what you can drink. How do you know if a wine is vegetarian o...

September 10, 2018
Mid-Week Meals: Blanchette’s Lentil Vinaigrette
We can all agree that cooking mid-week meals can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. And that occasionally (most of the time) those meals would taste a whole lot better with a glass of wine. We’...

September 4, 2018
Mid-Week Meals: Victoria Moore’s Hot Crab Pots
We can all agree that cooking mid-week meals can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. And that occasionally (most of the time) those meals would taste a whole lot better with a glass of wine. We’...

August 20, 2018
Guidelines for adventurous drinking
“Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something”. James Bond may have recognised Grant as a fraud when he ordered a Chianti but these days restaurant etiquette is no longer so stuck ...

August 16, 2018
Mid Week Meals: Pisqu’s Quinoa Salad
We can all agree that cooking mid-week meals can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. And that occasionally (most of the time) those meals would taste a whole lot better with a glass of wine. We’...

August 6, 2018
Top 7 summer cocktail recipes
There’s a certain stigma surrounding wine in a cocktail. Maybe people have just not tasted a good one..? Perhaps you don’t want to use your favourite wine and that’s fair. And we don’t recomme...

July 24, 2018
Wine and cheese lovers rejoice!
We’re so happy that there’s an official day dedicated to celebrating wine and cheese. It really is still the ultimate combination. What makes it great, is that it’s so very versatile...

July 21, 2018
The woman who turned Provence pink
The term pioneer is often used loosely, but in the case of Régine Sumeire, head of Provence’s Château la Tour de l’Evêque and Château Barbeyrolles, the label bears no exaggeration. As...

July 8, 2018
Clos de Tart – An epic, 1942 – 2003
Clos de Tart is a Domaine I am delighted to know really pretty well having worked with the wine for 10 vintages now. This particular evening was a very special one for a few reasons: It was a very com...

February 19, 2018
A Dinner with Moueix. Five Estates and Five Vintages!
I am going back to November last year for a write-up of a cracking dinner at C&B HQ. We had both Edouard and Kelley Moueix with us for an “At Home” in the dining room. With ETS J.P.Moueix havi...