Posts by Adrian
Enrique Mendoza Petit Verdot – Wine of the Month August 2018
I recently had the pleasure of taking a tour to this Bodega near Alicante and meeting the founder Señor Mendoza himself. This wine is 100% Petit Verdot with aromas and flavours of blackberry, blueberry, strawberry and some smoke hint from the time in barrel. Unfortunately I can only find it available from Amazon in the UK at…
Read MoreBlind Tasting – Why?
The wine world seems to have something of an obsession with blind tasting – surely this is a fairly pointless skill. In the real world when do you ever need to identify a wine blind? The bottles have a nice helpful label on the front. Sure, I can see the need to describe a wine…
Read MoreSherry tasting
Sherry is one of my passions so I recently organised a tasting of the main styles – Fino, Manzanilla, Amontillado, Oloroso, Cream and PX. It’s great when people who say sherry is either to dry or too sweet see the range of wines available and go away prepared to give it a try.
Read MoreBizios Symposium Moschofilero 2016 – Wine of the Month July 2018
This was really interesting as it uses a grape variety I had not previously heard of. From the Bizios Estate, Nemea, Greece this is really fresh with peach and apricot aromas and will be great with seafood. £16 from Wimbledon Wine Cellar
Read MoreDiren Collection Öküzgözü – Wine of the Month June 2018
I’ve become a fan of Turkish wines in recent years and thanks to Pelin of Gama UK I was able to try this one at the London Wine Fair. Öküzgözü grapes of eastern Anatolia are blended with Cabernet Sauvignon from the Aegean region. A fresh, lively, structured wine with flavours of cherry and raspberry. Great…
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