When we caught up with Richard Hemming who writes for JancisRobinson.com he suggested that food and sherry could be the next big thing. Then a book comes through the post of top chefs marrying recipes with food; then Pelham House Hotel asks us to host a sherry and food night. For those that can’t make [...]
Tags: Amontillado, Henry Butler, Jancis Robinson, Manzanilla, Pedro Ximenez, Pelham House, PX, Richard Corrigan, Richard Hemming, Sherry, Sherry from Jerez, Spanish wine
So yes, the second part of two about wine labels. Hopefully instructive. Better than that, maybe entertaining… With www.apecreative.com Send us your suggestions for a label for an English wine!
Tags: Brighton, Henry Butler, Red wine, Wine, Wine label design, Wine labels, Wine tasting, Wine with fish
How often do you pick up a wine based on it having a nice label? How often do you put a good wine back because you don’t like its label? Don’t lie. We’re all a bit shallow and marketeers know it. The fact is some decent English wine has come under fire because the labels [...]
Tags: information on wine labels, Red wine, White wine, Wine label design, Wine labels
Before we set off to Hotel TerraVina we asked if you the viewer had any questions for the big man, Gerard Basset. Thank you to both of you, here are your questions answered. Find out: Which grape variety, country and producer Msr. Basset has his eye on. What he sees as the difference between a [...]
Tags: Argentinian wine, Expensive wine, Gerard Basset, Henry Butler, Hotel TerraVina, Les Mirabelles restaurant, Malbec, Napa Valley, Wine questions
A follow up to my informative (though clearly not informative enough) intro to “what is a vintage.” Bastards. I told you that a good vintage relies on a good harvest, and that relies on the right weather. So winter, a vine is reduced to beef jerky, but come the spring we want buds and life [...]
Tags: Buying wine, climate change and wine, Henry Butler, Rhone wines, What is a vintage wine, wine and the weather
Little bit of a warm up for the soon to be released Winebox.tv WineSchool Videos: what is a vintage? People apply vintage to a bottle of wine incorrectly quite often, so to avoid looking like a fool, take heed, its really simple: its the date on the bottle. If a wine says 2009, that means [...]
Tags: 1982 Vintage Bordeaux, 2007 Rhone, Berry Brothers, Henry Butler, Vintage wines, Wine knowledge
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
