Wine Tasting Video: Spanish Reds – Manchuela, Yecla & Priorat
Cien Y Pico ‘Doble Pasta’ Tintorera 2009, Manchuela (£11.99 Liberty Wines) Really can’t work out whether I like this wine. I can’t fault its richness – it’s full throttle, deep inky wine packed with slightly baked/jammy dark berry fruit, b...
Wine Tasting Video: Valpolicella – the perfect summer red?
Alpha Zeta V Valpolicella 2011 (£8.99 Noel Young Wines, Stainton Wines, Corks Out, Richard Granger Wines, Noble Green Wines, Flourish & Prosper, Dalling & Co, Valvona & Crolla) Crunchy young style, has succulence, bite, notes of raspberrie...
Napa Royalty: Tasting the Wines of Oakville
While often considered a single "place" when it comes to wine, Napa is hardly a monolithic growing region. Each of its 14 established AVAs (American Viticultural Areas) lays claim to a separate identity, characterized by geology, microclimate, and dif...
Wine Tasting Video: Assorted Reds – Marzemino, Mencia, Bonarda & Pinotage
Taste The Difference Marzemino delle Venezie 2010, Veneto, Italy (£5.99 Sainsbury’s) Pale and very interesting, with joyful red berry and red cherry fruit and a touch of marzipan, classic chillable summer red, and a great price. S- Encanto Mencía R...
Rejecting Those Wine and Cheese Edicts
Rather than absolutes, let experience and instinct guide your wine and cheese pairings.
A Slice, and a Relaxed Wine or Beer Pairing
Practice following your instincts when it come to pairing wines and foods. The perfect dish to experiment with: pizza.
Wine Tasting Video: New Zealand Pinot Noir – Marlborough
Second video of a set of NZ Pinots I tried recently – the first featuring wines from Nelson, Martinborough and Central Otago is here. Yealands R3 Pinot Noir 2011, Awatere Valley (£12.99 Marks & Spencer) Youthful style, almost Beaujolais-like...
World Malbec Day – with an English accent…
April 17th 2012 is the second World Malbec Day – or Malbec World Day, as the website has it. To celebrate this, some bright sparks thought it would be a good idea to ship some Malbec grapes from the 2011 vintage over to the UK to see how a Englis...
Scary fish and Churchill’s port & wines
EEEEKKKKKK! That is one scary looking fish. I bet you’re wondering what exactly it has to do with wine. Well, that is what greeted me after my tour of the cellars of Churchill’s Port’s new visitor centre and lodge in Gaia, Portugal. I...
Wine Tasting Video: New Zealand Pinot Noir from Nelson, Central Otago & Martinborough
Another video featuring some Marlborough Pinots is here. Nelson Pinot Noir (Seifried) 2010 (£9.99 Marks & Spencer) A strange mix of stewed and raisinny fruit with the bitter green edge of underripeness of both fruit and tannin, rather scrawny fini...
Barrel samples from Quinta Vale d. Maria, Douro Valley, Portugal
1st collector for Barrel samples from Quinta Vale d. Maria, Douro…Follow my videos on vodpod Filed under: portugal, Portuguese wine, Videos Tagged: Discover the Origin, douro valley, Mariana Brito, portugal, Quinta Vale d. Maria, Red wine, vineyard
