As both Valentine’s Day and Easter approach, Peter Newton – chocolate afficionado and member of our Fine Wine team – considers the parallels between fine chocolate and fine wine. With Valentine’s Day and Easter fast-approaching, acquiring an appropriate box of chocolates is top of the shopping list; but, as a new trend sweeps the chocolate market, the old go-to […]

Following a trip Down Under, Katherine Dart MW, Buying Manager of our wholesale arm, ponders the exciting potential and remarkable appeal of Australia’s wine-scene. “The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging…The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t […]

Select musical members of the wine trade have joined together to form Skin Côntact – the industry’s very own rock band – who will be performing a one-off event in aid of Wine Relief (the wine industry’s fundraising efforts for Comic Relief). We speak to our band member Anne McHale MW – backing vocalist, delightful diva and member of […]

In our series investigating which bottles you should be drinking this year, Laura Atkinson-Godwin takes a look at the noble whites of northern Europe, telling you which Alsatian, Austrian and German bottles to open over the coming year. The tricky question of what to drink and when continues to challenge us, never truer for the complex […]