It is far from easy to stand out among the thousands of stands spread across the 10 halls covering 71,000 square metres at the annual ProWein fair in Dusseldorf, but there is no question that this is precisely what Georgia achieved this year with its presence in Hall 15. Over 20 producers of varying…
Reading the report on Sarah Abbott’s recent trip to Georgia with a team of top UK buyers prompted some memories of my own from three decades ago. I still don’t know how, in 1987, I came to be included in a small group of wine professionals invited to visit the then Soviet Union. There were,…
On October 5th the award-winning movie Prime Meridian will be screened at the London headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Pleas click here to watch the trailer, while details of the screening appear below… Wine aficionados will want to join HE Mrs Tamar Beruchashvili, Ambassador of Georgia to the United Kingdom, and…
We are delighted to offer a little taster of the brilliant Cradle of Wine exhibition that is currently running at the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux.
Cité du Vin – a celebration of wine in France The Cité du Vin, which opened in the heart of Bordeaux earlier this year, is much more than a museum; it’s an architectural masterpiece in which to experience and taste a wide range of wines from around the world and to learn about the history,…
Fine minds and fine wines…. What makes a wine ‘fine’? Along with 60 or so wine enthusiasts, professionals and consumers I was lucky to be invited by Nicole Sierra-Rolet co-founder of the le Chêne Bleu estate in the southern Rhône to try to answer this question at a weekend think tank snappily entitled Fine Minds 4 Fine…