Tag: christmas
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Planning a Party: Festive Edition
Follow our simple guide to take the stress out of planning your special event... Here are the key considerations and top tips for a fabulous party: How many guests? How many guests are you having and how many do you anticipate to be drinking wine. I would usually cater for approximately half a bottle or one bottle per head. If the ...
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Festive Food and Wine Pairing
Discover our buying team's top festive food and wine pairings to make it one to remember. From crisp, clean whites with seafood, to ripe, rounded reds alongside turkey and all the trimmings. Not forgetting sweet treats to accompany rich, decadent desserts. Let us inspire and excite you this festive season! Starter Following several glasses of ...
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Six Sweet Wines for Christmas
There are many many different styles of sweet wine out there, and we understand that the variety can be overwhelming! We have put together a helpful Christmas guide to sweet wines to help you navigate through the different styles and find the right one for you! The Noble One Noble rot, aka Botrytis Cinerea, is a remarkable, natural phenomenon ...
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Champagne is Always a Good Idea
What is it about Champagne? The first choice for celebrations of love, success and life's rites of passage for generations, the exclusive sparkling wines from the Champagne region of France hold a special place in the world of wine. The most northerly of France's wine regions, Champagne's history of sparkling wines dates back to 1668 when Dom ...
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Sweet and Fortified Wines Unwrapped
We hope you enjoyed our previous blog about Indulgent sweet wines made from the juice of extra ripe, botrytised, frozen and dried grapes. We now introduce you to another category of delicious sweet wines which are produced by adding a high strength grape spirit to fermenting wine, which kills the yeast and leaves a sweet, sticky wine. This method ...