The Sherry Conundrum
POSTED ON 22/03/2014Is sherry growing in popularity or is the much-vaunted sherry revolution a myth? This was the subject of a lively debate on Twitter recently after one journalist tweeted he was appearing on radio to talk about the growing popularity of sherry and another (ok, me) reluctantly questioned the assumption.
Antonio Flores
I Say Syrah ...
POSTED ON 15/03/2014In the beginning there was syrah. Start again. In the beginning there was Bordeaux and Burgundy. Rhône barely registered across the palate until the American writer Robert Parker wrote a book extolling its virtues.
A Wine Odyssey
POSTED ON 08/03/2014Occasionally, but not that often, a wine tasting comes along that not appeals to the palate and the mind, but to the soul too. So it was with ‘The Voyage’, a wine tasting showcasing quality Mediterranean growers’ wines put on by the Theatre of Wine shops with importers Vino Nostro and Eclectic Wines.
Down the Escalator
POSTED ON 01/03/2014In the unparalleled choice of wines available to us, we wine drinkers in the UK have never had it so good. First there were the classics, then came the New World and Europe fought back with a step-change in quality from its outlying Mediterranean regions. Now there’s a new New World of wine lapping at our shores.
Duty on wine in the EU
The Wine Investment Outlook for 2014
POSTED ON 01/03/2014A recent article appeared in a British national newspaper extolling the virtues of investing in wine. To back up its case, it gave four examples of great investments. There was a case of 1978 Romanée-Conti that sold for £286,000 at Christie’s auction house in 2013, three bottles of 1869 Château Lafite that fetched £146,232 in 2010, and six magnums of 1945 Château Mouton-Rothschild, which sold for £182,700 at Christie’s in 2006. Not forgetting, most laughably, the 1787 Château Lafite that sold for £105,000 in 1985. Why do I say ‘laughably’?
