Desert Island Wines

Last night I had a dream that I'd been given a once in a lifetime opportunity by a mysterious benefactor to go and live on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

W&W Wine Guide - When to Decant your Wine

To the uninitiated, the decision whether to decant your wine sits alongside such questions as "Should we have quinoa salad for dinner tonight, darling?" or Tuesday night disasters like, "Oh no, they've delivered

W&W Wine Guide - Champagne

There are plenty of pretenders to the throne when it comes to fizz, but none will ever usurp the majesty of Champagne. They say you can't bottle timeless quality and effortless elegance, but Champagne does exactly that. Here, we give you a quick synopsis of how it's done! 

W&W Wine Guide - Dessert Wine

There is no simple definition of a dessert wine. In the UK, a dessert wine is considered to be any sweet wine drunk with a meal, as opposed to the white fortified wines (fino and amontillado sherry) drunk before the meal, and the red fortified wines (port and madeira) drunk after it.

New Zealand Wine

Wine making and vine growing in New Zealand go back to the mid 19th Century. British Resident and keen oenologist James Busby, a British resident and oenologist was in 1836, attempting to produce wine at his land in Waitangi.

W&W Wine Guide - Ripasso della Valpolicella

A new style of wine emerged late in the 20th Century known as ripasso (meaning "repassed"). Here, the pomace of leftover grape skins from the fermentation of Recioto and Amarone are added to the batch of Valpolicella wines for a period of extended maceration.

W&W Wine Guide - Rioja

Rioja is a wine region, with Denominación de Origen Calificada designation of origin, named after La Rioja, in Spain. Located south of the Cantabrian Mountains along the Ebro river it has a continental climate.

W&W Wine Guide - Amarone

Amarone della Valpolicella (otherwise known as Amarone) is a rich Italian red wine made from the partially dried grapes of Corvina, Rondinella and other approved red grapes such as Corvinone and Molinara.

A Crash Course in Sherry!

Having had our Sherry and Tapas tasting in Heswall last month, and with our Sherry tasting on the way in Frodsham this week, we thought it was time to talk a little bit about this under-appreciated star of the wine world.