Wine sales, consultancy and education
I really do want to encourage more people to consume German wines and in particular German Riesling as they truly are well worth the effort but I understand how confusing and non-user friendly many labels can be. As I referenced in my last post on Riesling, the German classification system is a tricky beast and one that I don’t want to go into too much detail on as I suspect it will confuse more than assist. So there is…
Readers of this blog will remember I recently waxed lyrical about the virtues of English wine in particular with regard to sparkling. Before you head to the shops eager to hunt out a bottle of English wine (which if I’m being wholly accurate should be English or Welsh wine) I wanted to flag something… British wine has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with English or Welsh wine and is a totally different ‘beast’ entirely (and in this instance that definition…
The use of the Austrian flag on the capsule of the wine bottle is a sign of the wine’s provenance and quality. If you come across Austrian wines which don’t have this seal, the wine will not have gone through such stringent testing and thus quality may be more variable!