Wine Guides
Essential knowledge for wine enthusiasts
The Aging Game: When to Actually Open That Bottle
Right, let's have a proper chat about one of the biggest myths in the wine world: that all wine gets better with age. Absolute rubbish, darlings. Here's...
The Wine Insider's Guide to Cellar Design & Storage
Here's the thing about wine: it's a living, breathing beverage. Even after bottling, complex chemical reactions continue inside that glass prison. Phenolic...
Professional Wine Reviewing: Behind the Curtain
Right then, darlings – let's pull back the velvet curtain on one of wine's most mysterious professions: the professional critic. These are the people whose...
Wine Etiquette in Restaurants: How to Navigate the List Without Breaking a Sweat (or the Bank)
Right then, darlings. Let's talk about that moment when the wine list arrives at your table and suddenly everyone's looking at you like you've just been handed...
The Sommelier's Path: Your Guide to Wine's Most Prestigious Profession
Ever dreamt of getting paid to swirl, sniff, and sip gorgeous wines all day? Well, mes amis, let me pull back the velvet curtain on the sommelier...
Wine Storage Solutions for Every Budget
Listen, darlings - you don't need a château in Bordeaux to store your wine properly. Whether you've got twenty quid or two thousand to spend, I'm about to...
Starting Your Wine Collection: A Beginner's Guide to Building the Cellar of Your Dreams
So you've had your wine epiphany—that bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape at your mate's dinner party, perhaps, or a stunning Barolo that made you weak at the...
Wine Scoring Systems: A Skeptic's Guide to the Numbers Game
Here's the thing about wine scores, darlings: they're simultaneously brilliant and absolutely bonkers. On one hand, they give us a quick, digestible way to...
Wine Tasting Fundamentals: Master the 5 S's Like a Proper Sommelier
Right, let's address the elephant in the room—or rather, the wine in your glass. There's a rather enormous difference between drinking wine and...
How to Talk About Wine Without Sounding Like a Tosser
Right then, loves. Let's have a proper chat about wine language, shall we? I've sat through enough wine tastings where someone bangs on about "pencil...