Posturing that modern viticulture and vinification render it impossible to produce a truly bad wine in any vintage, Chris Lamb – Private Account Manager in our Fine Wine team – offers a retort to yesterday’s post. The term ‘vintage’, derived through the French word vin, literally translates to the year the grapes were harvested, relating […]

As members of our team continue to tackle topics of (vinous) contention, Richard Veal from our Private Wine Events team argues that there are limits to the power of winemaking when faced with nature’s fancies. Mine wasn’t a good vintage. I entered the world in 1974: finding the best of what my birth year can […]