Category: Miscellaneous

Wine Relief 2011 by Jancis Robinson MW

Much of my time at the moment is being spent encouraging wine lovers to participate in Wine Relief, our biennial chance to make a concrete contribution to Comic Relief’s carefully-monitored, life-changing projects in Africa and the UK. My husband Nick Lander and I had the idea of encouraging wine lovers to help others in 1999 […]

Win a pair of tickets to a tasting in Berrys’ cellars

Stuck for an original Valentine’s gift? Sifting through the fluffy toys and heart-shaped chocolates can prove trying, so how about impressing the one you love with a ticket to our Schloss Gobelsberg Fine Wine Tutored Tasting on Wednesday 16th February? We have one pair of tickets worth £150 to give away, just send your address […]

Rhône 2009; Taste the Difference

Well, Bordeaux and Burgundy 2009 have both come and gone with appropriate fanfare, a flurry of superlatives and salesmen clamouring for more and more allocations, often unsuccessfully. And now, the third and final Primeur Offer, an increasingly significant part of the BBR calendar…… Rhône 2009. And the news on the vintage is every bit as […]

Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé – the news from Le Berry

You’ve got to laugh at my lamentable linguistic skills as I struggle to piece together a sentence in French; each one originally decorated with Italian! I thank my friends in the region of Berry (no relations sadly) for being so patient! Sit back and squirm as I interview Messrs. Sautereau, Cailbourdin and Dezat…