Month: November, 2014

Franciacorta: a threat to Champagne’s throne?

Sophie Thorpe, a member of our Marketing team, espouses the virtues of all that effervesces in Italy’s wine industry and discovers it’s not all about the Prosecco As far as the Italian sparkling wine category is concerned, Prosecco is the dominant style, thanks to its easy-drinking nature and association with Giuseppe Cipriani’s fêted cocktail, the […]

The Bekaa of beyond

The Lebanon’s foremost producer, Château Musar is worthy of its connoisseur status and more says Emerging Regions Buyer Martin Hudson MW. Here he praises a unique terroir that has thrived in spite of a lengthy war and ongoing political unrest – and explains why our Wine Club members have a vinous treasure in store this […]

Eastern ambition

Following a recent trip to the orient Jasper Morris MW reports back on the state of the Chinese wine industry and the challenges facing it. I was agog to see the countryside of central China from the air, once we had escaped from the more humid and polluted atmosphere of the eastern seaboard. As we began […]

On the trail of Australia’s hidden gems

Jessica Poon, a Private Account Manager in our Hong Kong office, takes some well-earned time off to explore the land down under’s lesser-known – yet no less rewarding – wine territories Having recently been awarded a WSET scholarship from Wine Australia, I spent 10 days visiting Australia’s wine regions and was once again struck by the […]