Avina was pleased to support the Against Breast Cancer ‘Splash of Pink’ fundraising day recently, providing the special edition Swan pink corkscrew for competition prizes. The Splash of Pink is an annual community event, with stalls, entertainers and a pink window competition for the local shops...
As a determined band of Spain’s top terroir-focused winemakers continues to win support for its cause, the country’s consejos face a choice: do they resist, or do they adapt? All fine wine makers will tell you that great wines are made in the vineyard. Rather than put...
With his final epistle, Jonathan White emphasises the merchant’s role in assessing and advising on Bordeaux 2015, a vintage about which the team is undoubtedly excited. On Wednesday morning Christian Seely of Ch. Pichon Baron discussed with us the challenges of taking part in blind tastings...
Karen MacNeil, author of the best-selling book The Wine Bible, picks 10 wines that embody just why California today is so fascinating. Twenty years ago, I moved from New York City to the Napa Valley, in the sheer belief that living near vines would make me...
In 2001, Aubrey McClendon walked into an Oklahoma City wine shop seeking an education. His growing prominence as chief executive of Chesapeake Energy Corp. increasingly placed him at formal dinners where he was handed a wine list and invited to make a selection. “He didn’t know...
The Gran Reserva 904 was named in memory of a very important date for the La Rioja Alta SA winery. In 1904, founder of La Rioja Alta, Don Alfredo Ardanza, who was also owner the Ardanza winery in the same Rioja region, proposed a merger of the...
Everyone is talking about the amazing wine values you can find from Portugal. Well, what are they...