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“I don’t really know much about wine…” We hear this surprisingly often. Usually it’s said almost apologetically, immediately before someone tells us exactly what they like. “I don’t know anything

You open a wine. Pour a glass. It tastes fantastic. You go back for another and… somehow it’s not quite the same. Same wine. Same evening. Same person drinking it.

Pour. Swirl. Sniff. Sip. Then, seemingly within seconds, a winemaker or sommelier starts talking about acidity, fruit, tannin, oak and balance while the rest of us are still deciding whether

The wine list arrives. Twenty pages. Six countries. Dozens of producers. Grape varieties you’ve never heard of. And a few bottles approaching the price of a domestic flight. Where on

You’re at a restaurant. The wine arrives. The waiter pours you a small taste and waits. You swirl. You sniff. You sip. And then comes the moment of truth. What

We talk a lot about vineyards. The region, the soil, the weather, the vintage and when the grapes are picked. But what does a winemaker do once those grapes arrive

You’re standing at a cellar door, looking across the vines. The winemaker has just poured you a glass, the sun is shining and you take a sip. This is fantastic.

Picture a beautiful bottle of wine. Chances are you imagined glass – perhaps dark green, with a handsome label, a cork or screw cap and maybe one of those ridiculously