Month: June 2019

  • English sparkling wine (and Welsh fizz too) is improving in quality year by year and much is now on par with good (if not the best) Champagne. Both are made the same way, the so-called traditional method which, in the context of the history of sparkling wine, is actually a quite recent development, but never…

  • A couple of weeks at the London Wine Fair a friend in the trade asked me how my home-made wine had turned out. I was flattered that anyone had not only read my previous blogs on this subject but remembered doing so six months later. It is true that I have been neglecting both my…