Wine behind the label - The Award-Winning Wine Guide

The London Wine Fair is a  great event for discovering new wineries and renewing our acquaintance with old ones. During the three days of this event we tasted many wines and we will, in due course, be writing up our assessments of the wines we tasted. Listed below are wineries which we have highlighted and the vast majority of these will receive the benefit of a full entry in the 12th edition of the guide. Club members will have the privilege of being able to read these entries in advance

A customer who ordered a bottle of Ch. Pichon Lalande 2001 at £260 in the Manchester branch of Hawksmoor Restaurants, received a whopping bonus by getting a bottle of Ch. Le Pin 2001, on the wine list at £4,500, by mistake. Le Pin is a cult wine, highly priced for its quality and scarcity value as only about 500 cases are made each year. Ch. Pichon Lalande, is also a very, very, highly regarded wine which is never cheap, but has a much larger production.   Assessing the Quality/Price Ratio

We thought this report from the IWSR, the leading source of data and intelligence on the alcoholic beverage market, was interesting referring to a new study published in the medical journal The Lancet which reports a considerable upsurge in the global consumption of alcoholic drinks. However, the IWSR figures indicate “Many drinks operators are now focused more on generating value than volume and this is borne out in the premiumisation of the market and the rapid emergence of the craft movement. The IWSR’s figures show that while the overall global

Domaine Clarence Dillon, the family company owner of Château Haut-Brion, Château La Mission Haut-Brion and Château Quintus, is pleased to announce a distinctive new brand identity for the wines of Clarendelle, Inspired by Haut-Brion. The new logo, adorned by a crown and two majestic lions, is borrowed from the Dillon family coat of arms and provides a fitting replacement. The emblem signifies part of a story that is constantly evolving, the earliest chapters were signed by Mr Clarence Dillon at Château Haut-Brion in 1935.   Created in 2005 by Prince Robert of Luxembourg, the

If you would like to show your family and friends that you have a unique own label batch of Champagne from a well thought of small producer, then head down to Le Mesnil-sur-Oger on June 14th to bid for the right to have a lot of 216 bottles of Champagne tailor made for you by a unique concept in Champagne – the Single Barrel. Have a look at https://www.champagne-paul-launois.fr/singlebarrel/ If you do manage to buy some – let us know – we’ll be delighted to share a bottle with you!

This is a report from the ISWR, who track total beverage alcohol trends through granular volume, value and forecast data and insights spanning over 150 countries. European Markets Drive Demand and Growth London, UK – Though organic wines represent a small subset of the total global still wine industry, new research from IWSR Drinks Market Analysis shows a rapid increase in the coming years as consumer sentiment for sustainability and organic products grows. The IWSR Organic Wine Report, published this month, includes findings presented at the Millesime Sudvinbio fair earlier

The other day I received an email from Waitrose Cellar offering 25% discount on all wines provided you ordered at least 6 bottles (not all of the same wine either)   They do list a number of wines which rate as value for money on our Value for Money Wines Pro App, but I wondered how many wines would drop into the category of Exceptional Value for Money with this 25% discount?   So I went through their list with my app and have picked out some wines which I