Extract: Brut Force by Peter Stafford-Bow
In the People’s Book Prize finalist Peter Stafford-Bow’s second novel, Brut Force, Felix Hart returns and is caught between a blackmailing luxury goods corporation and a gang of organic wine fanatics. Read on for the first extract…
The Crazy Bear Clubhouse launches first Lanson Lounge
The Crazy Bear Group is launching the world’s first dedicated Champagne Lanson Lounge at its Crazy Bear Clubhouse, featuring the producer’s entire prestige range including a magnum of the 1988 vintage for £1,119.95.
Guilty pleasures: Yann Prigent
In the latest installment of our Guilty Pleasures series, in association with Côtes du Rhône Wines, we chat game birds and the joys of Côtes du Rhône Villages with head sommelier of The Bleeding Heart Group, Yann Prigent.
Derbyshire vineyard enlists fungal-free volunteers for first pigeage
A vineyard in Derbyshire enlisted local volunteers with “no minging feet” for what it believes to be the region’s first grape treading, as it gears up to launch its inaugural Pétillant Naturel in time for Christmas.
Wine decanter watch launched on Kickstarter
A Danish company has launched a watch called Décantheure on funding platform Kickstarter which allows users to track the time it takes to decant wines made from different grape varieties.
Record year: English and Welsh wine producers comment on 2018 vintage
With record volumes of grapes harvested across the board, we round up the reports from owners and winemakers in a year that could see as many as 18 million bottles of wine produced in the UK.
Simpsons Wine expects record harvest as volumes increase almost sevenfold
Kent-based Simpsons Wine Estate is expecting to harvest 200 tones of grapes this year, up from just 30 tones harvested in 2016 and 2017, as co-owners Charles and Ruth Simpson warn that the shortage of winery space will be a “big issue” for English wine producers in 2018.
Nobel Prize recipient to spend almost £3,000 of winnings on Champagne
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Sir Gregory Winter, who was named the joint-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry yesterday, has vowed to spend £2,793 of his winnings on Champagne and re-engineering his moat.
Watchmaker seeks funding for wine-dyed timepieces
Philadelphia-based Analog Watch Company has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its new range, The Somm Collection, a series of four timepieces with different coloured wine-dyed cork straps.
Pink to release her first wines under Two Wolves label
Pop star turned winemaker Pink has revealed that she will be releasing her first commercial wines later this year under the label Two Wolves, having bought an 10-hectare vineyard in Los Olivos, north of Santa Barbara, five years ago.