Is time to ask ouselves what are the wine trends in line to shape our drinking in 2020? Crystal balls and telescopes out! Well actually, market reports, observation, research and paying attention to what industry insiders are doing and saying regarding the wines we’ll be drinking in the new year. The trends listed below are a combination …
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In the wine world, the twenty-tens have been the decade of more: more wine regions in our shelves, more styles in the mainstream, more information and data about our habits and choices and, more interaction between the wine community. In the last ten years, Chardonnay and Merlot became cool again, Beaujolais was more than just a …
A Decade of Wine – Ten Styles that Changed the Game and Wines to Taste them Read More »
2018 has been a charming year for us wine lovers, where notions, refined palate preferences, and the pleasure to ‘drink less, but better’ surpassed a much more polarising 2017 vintage. “It’s a long way from Natural and Organic Wine they were reared” – the echo of wine commentary we may begin to hear more of …
The Wine Trends that Made 2018 and the Sommelier Secrets for What 2019 Brings Read More »
Some things are almost certain within the arena of wine. Lush Burgundy Pinot, austere Amarone and the ever moving spindle of rich Bordeaux elegance are with us from year to year. The passionate, humble winemakers, the character of each bottle, it’s somewhat reassuring. The year of wine in 2017 was a tough one for many …
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The dust is still settling on Vinexpo 2017, the nineteenth edition of the prestigious wine trade fair in Bordeaux where over two thousand wineries, wine buyers, sommeliers, Masters of Wine, Michelin starred chefs, trade bodies and media descended. In temperatures of 37⁰C, for four days, they worked tirelessly by day at the fair and partied …
Message On The Bottle: Wine Trends as Seen at Vinexpo 2017 Read More »
Trends are easier to identify when there is the benefit of distance and hindsight. They are a little more challenging to gauge when you are in the process of being a part of one. It can be a case of not seeing the forest for the trees until exiting. For trends in the wine I …
Wine Trends 2017: The Top Styles and Grapes to Taste Now Read More »
This summer, an officeless Spanish start-up run by people between 20 and 30 years of age launched Gik, the world’s first blue wine. While your friendly neighbourhood wine snob would get a migraine just by looking at its electric indigo-infused hue and roll his eyes to their homepage image of a man with a tyrannosaurus rex’s head in a pose …
Breaking all the Rules: How Millennials Like and Share #Wine☺ Read More »
In the battlefield of wine, House White, House Red and House Sparkling have always gathered all the glory while rosé has been continuously confined to the lesser lands of housewives’ book club catch-ups, agony aunts’ soap opera watching companions and campy pink treats for those with a thing for the kitsch. Yet the rosés are …
The War of the Rosés: Surrender to Rosé Wines Now Read More »
Food and wine go together like lock and key, pen and paper, and fish and chips. Wine making and culinary traditions have evolved together, to the effect that a glass of wine can transform a meal from a dreary daily ritual into a memorable dining experience. At an exclusive food and wine pairing in Dublin …
A Perfect Match – John Torode and Neil McGuigan Talk Wine and Food Read More »
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