Next year is the Big Birthday, but today 9th September it’s somehow 49 years since I returned from my time in Bordeaux with a case of half-bottle samples of the wine from the Cave Co-operative where I had been working […]

Dazzling dry whites, as well as ripe, pure fruit Pinot Noirs are the new norm for German wines … and they are well priced and utterly compelling. If you’re not yet a German wine fanatic, crack open […]

Today sees the launch of an entertaining and informative new memoir by Steven Spurrier, the man often called “the unsung hero of the British Wine Trade”. Wine – A Way Of Life tells the eventful story of a man […]

Did you know that the average British household throws away about two glasses of wine a week? That’s 624 million unloved bottles across the country every year! Our new campaign Save Our Wines has one simple mission: to save your […]

New study reveals how Britain could be a major wine producer and exporter by 2100 Central and East England primed to produce Sauvignon Blanc Edinburgh and Elgin could be the new home of […]

Harvest for the 2016 vintage of sparkling wine has just been completed at Windsor Great Park Vineyard, under the auspices of the greatest château of them all, Windsor Castle. Join us for a look behind the scenes in this […]

Laithwaite’s Wine puts wine aficionados’ senses to the ultimate test with ‘Tasting in the Dark’ … Wine buffs may think it’s easy to spot a Sauvignon Blanc from a Pinot Grigio, or indeed a white from a rosé, but what […]