Joss Fowler looks at wine investment over the last year This time last year was about the time that fear hit the fine wine market.  We had seemed immune from the wider travails of the economy – 10 cases of 2000 Ch. Lafite-Rothschild selling at Christie’s for a shade under £11,000 per case just days […]

For those of you who have been following Wine Matters’ blog posts, you will remember that many-a discussion was created around the topic of biodynamics.  Please keep these comments coming as we move on to a new subject: Wine Investment.  We will be kicking this theme off with a post from Joss Fowler, one of […]

Our new (free!) iPhone App is certainly satisfying wine lovers’ thirst for knowledge as a total of 22, 500 people have downloaded it in the last couple of weeks!! The App allows you to browse our list of over 2,000 wines, as well as consult tasting notes, maturity guides and even watch the popular ‘Virtual […]

Believe me, I’ve never witnessed a tasting room reduced to such stunned silence. The 30 guests attending André’s two-hour Alsace masterclass in Berrys’ Pickering Cellar on Thursday sat glued to their seats even for an extra ten minutes after the session finished, open-mouthed, as if begging for more. The Alchemist of Alsace, André Ostertag, had […]