Wine is great fun, but it’s even more fun if you can talk about it comfortably. There is no right or wrong but developing a language of flavour and extending your knowledge of how wine is made, the people and the places enriches the enjoyment you can get out of a bottle. With many years [...]
How we came to be selling Sacred gin.
So it was at the Real Wine Fair with our policy wonk that the natural wine took hold. A faintly manic look took hold of him and he started to gibber and shake. “Don’t mind him” I told the Sicilian winemaker, “he’s just been on edge since that Georgian monk smiled at him.” I carried [...]
Wine Tastings in Canterbury
Since we opened we have regularly run wine tastings in Canterbury. Why? Well it’s quite simply the reason we have a shop, until you can download samples from the internet via some sort of iSpiggot the only way you can know what’s in that gaudily decorated glass bottle is by tasting it. Our approach to [...]
A love letter to California
We were nominated for a competition with the Californian Institute of Wine for a buying trip, and had to write a bit on why we should go rather than anyone else (in my minds’ eye my principle rival is a corner shop and off-license in Bournemouth run by a semi professional darts player called Les). Here’s [...]
Dr Strangeglass, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Wine
Part the second detailing the heroic struggle between man and wine. In more specific terms, we’re talking about how wine develops once opened, how much fun there is to be had in leaving oddments of natural wine around and why you should never listen to Dan (or anyone else) when trying to form your own opinion of a wine…
Campaign for real wine.
In which our beloved author starts blogging about wine and his opinions thereof. In this first epistle he covers wine making attitudes and the resultant juices that bring us so much joy, although can sadly result in him writing in the third person. We may get as far as Canterbury, beer and pirates but not yet. We start with a few choice words on the state of wine today…
Events & Tastings
We hold regular tastings at the shop and monthly tastings in more salubrious quarters. Get times and locations in your inbox.
