Tag: Exploring & Tasting Wine

Popular in pink: how to make rosé

Interesting wines, still and sparkling, have led to a resurgence of rosé on wine lists. In an extract from our Wine School’s introductory book, Exploring & Tasting Wine, Anne McHale MW looks at how rosé is made. Pink wine has become much more popular in recent years. Gone are the days when the sole association […]

How to store wine at home

Finding that perfect corner to squirrel away special bottles until they’ve reached drinking perfection can be tricky. If your flat didn’t happen to come with a charmingly cool and musty cellar (a modern plight, we’re sure), here are our tips for storing wine at home (an extract from our Wine School’s book, Exploring & Tasting […]

Bordeaux: classifications and rankings

What is a Cru Classé – a Classed Growth? Why do parts of Bordeaux have a rigid pecking-order, and others not? In an extract from our Wine School’s introductory book Exploring & Tasting Wine, Martin Hudson MW explains. In 1855 the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce drew up a new classification of the red wines of […]

Bordeaux: the Right Bank explained

Following on from last month’s piece explaining the Left Bank, here we publish an excerpt from Exploring & Tasting Wine which introduces the Right Bank. The wine-lands on the Right Bank of the broad Gironde estuary look to Libourne rather than Bordeaux as their capital, and have Merlot rather than Cabernet Sauvignon as their chief […]