Hello to all our slurpingitalian friends, Now this really is a one off... for now anyway! Welsh wine week starts on Friday 4th June until the 13th. So Lee - @wineman147 and Me @peter.pietrovini decided to do an Instagram live event "FROM THE VINEYARD" , now we are ALLOWED! at Whitecastle Vineyard with Robb and …
Valentines Day – AT HOME!
CELEBRATE VALENTINE ’S DAY WITH RATHFINNY SUSSEX SPARKLING WINES. Well Hello Again, Apologies for my lack of blogging recently..... these horrible times that we now find ourselves in are taking some getting used to for us all. Once again the UK is in LOCKDOWN as COVID19 strides relentlessly through our population which means that Valentines …
RESERVED!
Hi Folks Well "Have I got NEWS for you" and also a first to ever be done in the UK. It all started when myself and Jeremy Palmer (from Barbados - @JeremyPalmer7 - Twitter) got into a conversation around Christmas time last year as he was seeing Rathfinny English sparkling wines on twitter and social …
My long weekend at the Rathfinny Wine Estate. 🇬🇧
Hello again I have been looking forward to staying at the Rathfinny vineyard estate ever since I went to their launch, last April, of their Sussex Sparkling wine at the very glamorous venue of Somerset house in London. Here is my blog from last year. Rathfinny Launch After a few emails back and forth to …
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Rathfinny at the Ritz 🇬🇧
Hi again all, I wrote last year about the launch of Rathfinny's new English sparkling wines, from Sussex, England, you can check that out here. Rathfinny Blog. After a very successful initial launch their new vintage 2015 Blanc de Noirs & 2016 Rosé are about to be launched on the 1st of May and then …
Poulton Hill Estate – Cotwolds – Part 4 WineGB🇬🇧
Well I know you must be amazed at the fourth blog in ten days! I had met Tiléri and Natalie from Poulton Hill Estate vineyard at a couple wine tastings in the Cotswolds and really wanted to go and check out what they are doing. Well my twitter buddy Swami, now lifelong food & wine …
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Astley Vineyard- Worcestershire- Part 3 WineGB🇬🇧
Hi again...… I know 3 blogs in a week! and there is more next week too. Astley vineyard is actually the closest vineyard to my home in Worcestershire. (40 mins south of the UK's 2nd city Birmingham) When I started to taste more English still wines at trade events I really had to go and …
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Welsh Wine. White Castle Vineyard- Part 2 WineGB🇬🇧
Hello again..... SO SOON haha. Well I mentioned in my Part 1, WINE GB, piece last Sunday about Robb Merchant who is the Chairman of the Welsh Vineyards Association and also owner of White Castle Vineyard whom I had met at the Wine GB event in London. White Castle Vineyard is owned by Robb & …
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WINE GB🇬🇧 Part 1
Hello Great Britain is making seriously good... no seriously bloody great wines! Wine GB is the premier wine event for the UK wine industry held at the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Hall in London. All of the Vineyards at the event are listed at the end of this blog with their websites and twitter handles …