5 reasons why you should be toasting English wine this week

English Wine Week is upon us and this year there are more reasons than ever to raise a glass to the country’s burgeoning viticultural scene. With growers planting some 3 million vines from Yorkshire to Kent and a tropical summer bringing ideal growing conditions last year there is a bumper crop to enjoy this summer from a market that is enjoying critical acclaim across the world. Wine lovers from America, China, Japan and elsewhere have taken a keen interest in...

Wine of the Week: Bolney Pinot Gris

This week sees the welcome return of English wine as we visit one of the country’s largest producers in Sussex. 2018 was, in the parlance of Frank Sinatra, a very good year for English wine, and so it is only right we celebrate it. Hot and dry weather landed a bumper crop for growers across the country as many Old World wine producers struggled against the relatively temperate conditions north of France. At Bolney, a third-generation family business, clear blue...

Wine of the Week: Masi Masianco 2017

There is something gloriously refined about drinking Venetian wine on a warm summer’s evening, I wrote of Masianco’s brother Campofiorin back in 2016. Located in the best vineyard sites in foothill and hillsides near the Italian Austrian border, winemakers Masi has been at the forefront of Venetian wine for several decades, working to identify the historic “cru” vineyard sites for Amarone. They produce modern, attractive and well-balanced wines credited for “revolutionising the art of wine-making in the Venetian region”, defined...

Fine wine braces up to Brexit says BWC Management

The word Brexit is heard so frequently that it now feels like that annoying fly buzzing around your ear, refusing to go away. This interminable political hoi polloi has, inevitably affected public confidence, leaving traditional investment markets wheeling from uncertainty like a run-away thorough bred horse. 2018 was a record setting year for stocks, one that many investors would rather forget. The Dow Jones fell 8.7% the S&P 500 was down 9% and the Nasdaq fell 4% and the FTSE...

Wine of the Week: Deen Vat 1 Durif 2016

There are certain grape varieties that have become heroes of the New World. In a piece I penned in 2015 I went to great lengths in celebrating the many virtues of Carménère – a grape that has largely been ostracised from Bordeaux but has found new life in Chile. And I could list many more. Excusing the obvious inclusions – chardonnay in Australia, Sauvignon Blanc in Marlborough, Malbec in Argentina and, of course, Pinotage in South Africa – there a...

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