How many of the wines on your local supermarket shelf do you think were chosen by someone who has actually been to the vineyard? The honest answer is very few, if any. Large retailers work from spreadsheets, tasting notes, margin calculations, and commercial...
When did you last see a truly dark sky? Not a city sky, orange-tinged and hazy, where a handful of stars push through the light pollution if you squint hard enough. A real sky. The kind where the Milky Way is not an abstraction or a photograph you've seen online, but...
When do you think about visiting the Isle of Skye?If you're like most people, your mind goes straight to summer. Long days, the best chance of dry weather, the famous sites looking their most dramatic under a blue sky. And summer on Skye is genuinely wonderful. But if...
Have you ever been to a wine tasting and left feeling like it wasn't really designed for you? Perhaps the wines were chosen by someone who didn't know your tastes, the pace felt wrong, or the whole thing leaned too heavily on information you didn't ask for and...
Let WGoS guide your thinking! Easter is one of those lovely moments in the year when food really takes centre stage. The days are getting a little brighter, families gather around the table, and the kitchen fills with the smell of a roast slowly cooking in the oven....
Have you ever stood in front of a shelf full of wine bottles and thought, I have absolutely no idea which one to pick? You’re not alone. I see it all the time. Wine can feel confusing at first, unfamiliar names, different regions, and labels that don’t always...
Cheese and wine. Two of life’s great pleasures. Put them together properly and you have something far better than the sum of their parts. Yet most people get it wrong. They reach for a big red because they assume cheese needs power. Sometimes it does; often it does...
This is a question I get all the time at tastings. “Why is that white £22 and the red next to it £38?” It is not fashion. It is not hype. It comes down to time, oak and simple economics. Let’s unpack it. Time Is Money...
If you have ever stood in front of a shelf of wine and noticed a neat little “92 points” sticker staring back at you, you are not alone. Wine is one of the few products in the world that is routinely “scored” by critics. We do not score...
And why you don’t need to. Let me paint the scene. You’re hosting a dinner party. Good food. Smart guests. Maybe clients. Maybe friends you quietly want to impress. So you go and buy a “big” wine. You know the sort, high alcohol, heavy bottle, deep punt, big...
Valentine’s Day has a funny way of sneaking up on people. Suddenly there’s pressure — to book somewhere, to cook something impressive, to choose the right bottle of wine. And more often than not, that pressure lands on Champagne. It’s the obvious choice. The...
One of the most common conversations I have with customers goes something like this: "Why is this bottle twelve pounds when I can buy one for six in the supermarketIs more expensive wine actually better or am I just paying for a label" They are fair questions....