Wine recommendations for the coming season and menus From Nick Adams, Master of Wine. Introduction After what has been for most of us a truly challenging year, I am sure we are all ready for […]

Nick Adams November 2020 We reach the end of the Italy trilogy with a look at the South and Islands. Areas of great history and spectacular scenery – truly agricultural – and amazingly atmospheric. Three […]

This is one of the oldest of all wine areas in Italy. Evidence of viticulture exists in this region back to the 8th Century BC. Florentine wine retailers were known to exist in the 11th Century. By […]

Of all the countries in the Old World Italy is one of the oldest, and arguably the most individual in terms of indigenous grape varieties and spectacular (often strongly secular) regional variations and styles. It […]

The recent blog on Châteauneuf-du-Pape  https://winetrust100.co.uk/chateauneuf-du-pape-home-to-one-of-the-worlds-greatest-red-wines-and-ufos/ set me thinking about how the main grape behind this world famous wine is arguably the least known of all the great international varieties planted around the world. Grenache […]

Before Covid the average number of tourists to Greece from the UK totalled 3.5 million, so exposure to the culture of this great country was quite widespread. If you stepped back a few years and […]

The old Château with the iconic “galets” pudding stones and low growing “bush” vines The best Châteauneuf-du-Papes are among the most natural expressions of grapes, place and vintage anywhereRobert Parker, Wine Advocate Châteauneuf-du-Pape is one […]

The iconic Table Mountain backdrop to Cape Town The Covid-19 pandemic has crossed all boundaries, industries, and most livelihoods, not least the wine world. Of all the winemaking countries in the world affected right now […]

The idea for this blog came about from enquiries and questions asked by Wine Trust customers – over time – and those ones which stood out as very interesting questions and/or were being repeatedly asked. […]

This blog almost feels like an antidote to the previous one on Chardonnay – in that I wanted to look at a grape which has all the qualities of one of the world’s greatest white […]

Part Two – Rosé and White Winemaking, and Aging of Wine Prior to Bottling Rosé Wine And the longer you leave the black skins in contact with the juice the darker the colour becomes. To […]

Part One – The Harvest and Red Winemaking (prior to aging) It all starts with grapes on the vine: and it is important that these are both healthy (no rot) and properly ripe. Not ripe […]

Following on from the Burgundy blog I thought it might be interesting – as indicated in that blog – to look at Chardonnay more broadly – ie above and beyond its role in Burgundy – […]

Red Burgundy The Most Valuable Vineyard in the World Tucked behind the Côte de Nuits Village of Vosne-Romanée is a small vineyard – for purists a vinous Mecca – that is judged by many as […]

White Burgundy Burgundy is the spiritual home of Chardonnay. Not only did the region realise and raise the quality and reputation of this noble grape, it also quasi patented the method used to create these […]