If the long end to winter is getting you down, let Wine Advisor Becky Austin from our Warehouse Shop in Basingstoke lighten the mood, as she enthuses over three exciting recommendations of what to be drinking now If you’re anything like my boyfriend and I, you’ve had enough of walks in your wellies, film nights […]

On her first foray into life on a winery as well as being “Down Under”, Sophie Thorpe shares her initial impressions on becoming a cellar hand, deep in the heart of Australia’s Margaret River “It’s going to be dirty. It’s going to be physical. And it’s going to be hard,” Nic Peterkin – my boss […]

Two of the Berry Bros. & Rudd team are currently under harvest-arrest in Western Australia. Here, Wine Buyer Will Heslop reports on his experience so far, and celebrates 30 years of Frankland Estate I write this from a veranda overlooking a mown wheat field and, beyond it, a forest of blue gums. The forest hides the rocky […]

This coming Monday, the much anticipated Promontory 2012 will be released. We sent Sophie McLean to meet owner Will Harlan to gain further insight to this all new Napa “territory” wine “You have to drive up a single dirt track,” says Will Harlan as he describes where his vines are. “It’s the first natural break […]