“British Sparkling Wine”, a name for all, a name for none?

by Andrew Triska | 10-05-2023 ~ 9 Comments

Given the recent Coronation, it only seemed fitting to take a look at one of the long-unresolved issues for the wines of Great Britain... In the last twenty years, British sparkling wine (or its longer,... more »

In The Glass: Sugrue – The Trouble with Dreams 2010

by Miquel Hudin | 30-12-2020

Let’s just take a moment, inhale deeply and envision the spring of 2016. I don’t work at Facebook, so I don’t know where you were, but I remember very well where I was. It was... more »

The 2017 Wine Predictions in review

by Miquel Hudin | 18-01-2018

It’s one thing in wine to shoot your mouth off at the beginning of the year about what you believe will come to be in the next 12 months. In reality, it’s a crapshoot as... more »

Renaming English Sparkling Wine

by Miquel Hudin | 02-02-2017

As of late there has been a bit of circulation in the wine trade about “English Sparkling Wine“, well, the name anyways. It’s a name that seems has been come about to as a compromise... more »

Wine Predictions for 2017

by Miquel Hudin | 28-12-2016 ~ 2 Comments

This is of course that time of year when anyone writing in wine sets forth their grand predictions for this next trip around the sun. Yay! They can sometimes be interesting but, despite its slow... more »

Never mind the grapes, here’s the yeast

by Miquel Hudin | 18-07-2016 ~ 3 Comments

It seems I have a never-ending treasure trove of articles from the ICCWS 2016 held in Brighton this past May. There was one session that was particularly interesting (well, maybe really) and it was about... more »

Tasting the newness of English Sparkling Wine

by Miquel Hudin | 08-06-2016

If you were to go back in time 20 years ago and ask a much younger version of me what I thought about sparkling wines, my reaction wouldn’t have been amazing. If you were to... more »

ICCWS 2016, Wow!

by Miquel Hudin | 31-05-2016

This past Saturday marked the end of the three day event called, the International Cool Climate Wine Symposium 2016. That lengthy title sums up the event very well as it was three intense days focused... more »