It’s nearly here! The one day of the year where it’s absolutely fine to chuck food around the kitchen. On Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, we’ll all be slicking our frying pans and trying to master the perfect toss for […]
Beef, mushrooms and a thick red wine gravy surrounded by short, buttery pastry – we can’t think of anything better. Which is why, to celebrate British Pie Week running from the 4th to 10th of March, we’ve decided to share […]
It’s happened to the best of us. In one had you have a lovely bottle of wine you can’t wait to open and in the other … oh, where’s the corkscrew? But hold on a minute, there are a few […]
If you really love wine (and if you’re reading this chances are already fairly high that you do) then you’re probably the kind of person who would recoil in horror at a Champagne saucer. You know as well as we […]
A wise man once wrote there is no love more sincere than the love of food. But we have an amendment to that: There is no love more sincere than the love of food… and wine. With Valentine’s Day around […]
Big, bold Shiraz blockbusters and crisp, upfront Chardonnays are the wines that put Australia on the map. The first grape vines were sent down under on the First Fleet in 1788, but it wasn’t for another 200 years that Australian […]
It’s been 50 years since Tony Laithwaite first started buying wine in France and selling it to customers in the UK. Since then a lot has changed (Tony started out with a van and little bit of help from his […]
“Which wine goes with roast chicken?” is one of the most popular questions for our Personal Wine Advisors. […]
What claret lover doesn’t dream of slowly uncorking a bottle from one of the truly great names? As fine wine guru Robert Parker says, the romance of pouring something from a famous château “has a grip and allure that is […]
What do you mean wine isn’t vegan, isn’t it just grapes? Although that might be oversimplifying it just a bit, you’d be forgiven for not knowing that some wines are off limits if you’re living a vegan lifestyle. Which is […]
