Matthew Jukes’ 100 Best Wine Australian Tasting
A great night, with Matthew on form being both informative and entertaining as he talked us through the twelve wines selected from his top 100. Unsurprisingly all the wines showed well, and during the evening Matthew reminded us of the need to seek out balance in wines as well as pointing to the need to
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Rueda
Until recently, when the outside world thought of Spanish wine, they would think of red, especially from Rioja. Spanish white wine – often big and oaky with not a hint of fruit or, worse still, oxidised – did not enjoy a particularly good reputation and was not rated very highly, even in Spain itself. However,
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Tasting List out!
The wines we are tasting with Matthew Jukes at the Top 100 wines tasting on Thursday have now been released and include some really exciting wines several of which feature highly in Langton’s Classification. SPARKLING NV JANSZ WHITE 2009 BREMERTON VERDELHO 2009 PEWSEY VALE RIESLING 2009 MITCHELTON AIRSTRIP 2005 MCWILLIAMS LOVEDALE SEMILLON 2007 LEEUWIN ESTATE
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Ribera del Duero
Ribera del Duero is not only one of the best wine regions situated along the Duero river (which becomes the Douro once it enters Portugal) it is one of the best regions in Spain and is internationally recognised for the high quality of the wines that are produced there. It has long been the home
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Jumilla
The provinces of Murcia and Albacete on the east coast of Spain are not the most obvious place you would think of when it comes to wine. They are far better known as being the homes of tourist resorts around towns such as Alicante and Benidorm. Travel a little way inland, however, and up in
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Spanish Mixed Case Offer
To celebrate our Spanish promotion we’ve put together a mixed case exclusively online with a saving of £20. The case contains 2 bottles each of :- Prado Rey Cuvee Primium Ribera del Duero – a lovely wine made from the same grape as Rioja but fuller in body and with more subtle use of oak
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Rias Baixas
Whilst Spain is probably best known for it’s red wines there are a few regions that specialise in producing wonderful whites, and at the forefront is Rias Baixas (ree-ass baysh-ass) to the North West of the country close to both the Atlantic coast and the northern Portuguese border in Galicia. Thevineyards are surrounded by lush
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Priorato
For many people wine in Spain is Rioja or rather Rioja IS Spanish wine, and whilst we need to be careful not to devalue the importance of Rioja to the Spanish wine trade both in terms of it’s quality but also it’s marketability and the fact that the other regions are able to float along
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Open Bottles…
There are always times when you are left with an open bottle of wine, it may be that you’re the only one drinking, or perhaps you just wanted a glass of wine each with a nice meal in the middle of the week – but what to do with it? it can be a little
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Bottle Stoppers
One of the biggest changes in wine over the last twenty years is how it is sealed. If you’d given me a bottle with a screw cap on it in 1991 (apart from the fact that I was underage) I’d probably have either turned my nose up at it or used it for cooking. And
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