A double dose of fantastic news from the Drinks Business' Champagne Masters competition.
The Champagne Masters is a competition created and run by the drinks business and judged by leading wine experts. Almost 100 Champagnes were tasted and awarded Bronze, Silver or Gold medals according to how they fared. Those Champagnes that stood out as being ...

The Enotria training team were celebrating collecting a Spear Award from Mitchells and Butlers, the UK's leading restaurant and bar operator. We were voted for a Spear (Supplier performance, evaluate and review) award for Special Recognition of Drinks Quality Category Support. This was in recognition of the brilliant work done by our training team, Lily ...

The following is an excellent reflection by Matt Walls on the capricious Nebbiolo grape, taken from www.timatkin.com
To begin with I didn’t get it. Drinking Nebbiolo seemed like trying to swallow a cube, cut from a tree. It was hard, it was sharp, it was dry; and sometimes it tasted of wood. But the more I ...

Western Australia producer Xanadu has taken the trophy for the Best Chardonnay at this year’s Five Nations Challenge before going on to win the Trophy for Best White Wine of Show.
Pitted against the best wines from New Zealand, Argentina, South Africa and Chile, the 2010 Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay came out on top. This incredible ...

Yealands Estate has been awarded “Most Sustainable Medium Business” at the International Green Awards 2012. The Marlborough winery is the only New Zealand organisation, and only winery globally, recognised by the leading sustainability awards.
The winners were announced last night at the International Green Awards ceremony and dinner at Battersea Power Station, London. Yealands Estate Pinot ...

Ken Forrester’s The Gypsy 2009 has just received a 5 star rating in the 2013 John Platter Wine Guide, South Africa’s most respected wine journal.
To qualify for 5 stars, a shortlist of wines are entered into a second round of tasting. After a third blind tasting, the highest scoring wines are given a 5-star ...