Thanks to both of you for watching us in our fledgling months. 2011 will see more of the same and some of the difference. We’ve lined up an interview with the World Sommelier Gerard Basset (co-founder of Hotel du Vin, now doing his own thing in the New Forest. We’re off to South Africa to [...]
Tags: Champagne, Henry Butler, New Year Wines, Winebox tv
Here I am dressed literally like a muppet to tell you of a new initiative from New Zealand where the Mobious Malborough vineyard are listing the wine’s carbon footprint on the label. This seems like a good idea: I get a number of people in carrot-munching Brighton coming in the shop and looking for organic [...]
Tags: carbon footprint, Chilean Wine, Green wine, Henry Butler, off-setting in wine production, Organic wine, Waipara Springs wine, Wine from New Zealand
Port is the classic close to the Christmas dinner, but port isn’t an uplifting drink – it sends you to slumber and that’s not always what you want. Madeira is a great alternative. Four grape varieties: Dry is Sercial; Medium Dry is Verdelho, Medium Sweet is Boal (and what I would recommend after lunch) and [...]
Tags: Christmas wine, Compass Box Whiskey, Eau De Vie de Framboise, Henry Butler, Madeira, Port
Santa Henry wants you for his army of elves! And what wine should you drink with your turkey, Christmas day? There are different schools of thought, here, red or white, but the main piece of advice is to go for something that won’t be overpowered by whatever else you have loaded onto your plate, as [...]
Tags: Beaujolais, christmas day wine, Garganega, Henry Butler, Red wine, Soave, turkey, White wine
As a follow up to the last programme, cameraman piped up about how (especially at Christmas) Champagne and other sparkling wines get reduced at the supermarkets. Does that mean it’s bad plonk he wondered? On the whole, a £10 wine is a £10 wine. You can sell something at a remote outlet for 28 days [...]
Tags: Cava, cheap champagne, cheap wine, Henry Butler, Prosecco, sparkling wine, supermarket wine, wine offers
Right, with Christmas and New Year on the horizon there will be a lot of fizz being drunk. Probably quite cheap fizz given the current climate. Lots of people want to know the difference between Champagne, Cava and Prosecco, so here goes: The fact that champagne is well known is no surprise. Its like a [...]
Tags: Cava wine, celebration wines, Champagne, Choosing a sparking wine, christmas wines, Henry Butler, Italian wines, Spanish sparkling wine, sparkling wine
Here I am dressed as an ASBO gnome to bring the first of three programmes about what to drink on Christmas Day. The answer is everything. But if you want to be more refined, after a compulsory trip to the pub, its traditional to hook up with Sherry. Sherry has got bad connotations because of [...]
Tags: Brighton Christmas wine sales, Christmas drink, Christmas wine, Henry Butler, Pedro Jimenez, Sherry, Spanish wine
Laugh-a-minute nobel prize winning author Gunter Grass has designed a wine label. Not to my taste: a snail on a bunch of grapes. It’s no surprise that the design and marketing of a bottle can sway the way we buy and the label is often a way to get a talking point around the wine. [...]
Tags: Brighton Wine presents, Henry Butler, Italian Wine, Michel Gondry, Some Young Punks, Squids Fist, Wine label design
