by Sean Ludford | Oct 26, 2017 | News Feed, Wine
The Guardian Wine producers’ body warns production will fall after Italy, France and Spain were hit by freak weather events in 2017 If you haven’t got a wine cellar, it’s time to get one and start stockpiling – because global wine production is to fall to its lowest level in more than 50 years. On Tuesday the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV)...
by Sean Ludford | Sep 13, 2017 | Wine
Garnacha, or Grenache as they say in France and much of the New World, is an interesting and versatile grape of Spanish origin. It’s absolutely one of my favorite red wine grapes as it shines in so many applications. For the sake of brevity I will simply refer to the grape as Garnacha now that we have established that the varietal has more than...
by Sean Ludford | Jul 25, 2017 | Wine
Petite Sirah is a mysterious grape with that originated in France in the 1880s but it undeniably reached its greatest heights and popularity in the USA. First, let’s understand that Petite Sirah and Syrah are completely different grapes. They are related, as we will discuss soon, but different. The name Petite Sirah was given by winegrowers as the grapes do resemble small Syrah grapes....
by Sean Ludford | Jul 17, 2017 | Wine
Source: harpers.co.uk By Jason Haynes July, 2017 Flint Wines’s Burgundy specialist Jason Haynes has just returned from Burgundy’s vineyards following a recent 10-day stint in the region. Here, he has the latest updates on how the growers and the vineyards are faring in 2017 while looking back the challenging shortages of the 2016 vintage. As the 2017 Tour de France circus pulled out of...
by Sean Ludford | Jul 14, 2017 | Wine
You’ve bought the perfect bottle of wine but if you want to get the wine into your glass you likely have to own a tool. Nearly everyone, including the infrequent wine drinker, owns a wine opener of some sort. Tragically, most have shoddy tools more adept at shredding corks than removing them. There is no need to have an inferior wine opener or to fear...
by Sean Ludford | Jun 26, 2017 | News Feed, Wine
National Association of Wine Retailers June 25th, 2017 In the face of the declining brick and mortar retail sector at the hands of Amazon and other online players, it’s hard to overstate the shortsightedness of the opponents of retailer-to-consumer wine shipping. Without the ability to access the broader, more expansive national marketplace for fine wine via direct interstate shipment , traditional specialty wine retailers...
