Pietradolce – Etna Rosato – 2018

So, my wine of the week this week is Pietradolce – Etna Rosato Winery : Pietradolce Where : High altitude vineyards on Mount Etna in Sicily.  Mount Etna, or Etna, is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily,…

The Rhone

On Sunday Evening my wife and I decided to go to a restaurant and enjoy a family favourite – steak and red wine!  After we looked at the menu, we decided to go with this bottle of Vacqueyras.  A southern…

New Zealand wine tasting @ 67 Pall Mall

Highlights would be a 2014 Viognier by Alpha Domus based in Hakes Bay, North Island, and two very contrasting Pinot’s. The two pinot’s I loved were Tinker’s Field, by Rippon Vineyard, mature vines in Central Otago in  contrast to Te…

Rioja Alta Vertical Tasting!

                . Wow, what an amazing afternoon doing this vertical tasting!  These wines are an amazing expression of Rioja and I hope we can visit the vineyard next year.  The insight of tasting…

Orange Wine!

                            Really like this visual showing how Orange Wine is made I found on-line!   Orange Wine or Vino Naranja is produced in Huelva and Málaga in…

World’s Leading Wines Tasting Event

Great day out yesterday.   Found some very interesting wines, but of particular interest was a wine from The Douro.   Douro is a Portuguese wine region centered on the Douro River in the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro region. It…

The Wine Society

So today we have joined The Wine Society.   This is really exciting and marks a new chapter in my exploration in wine.  Every month I want to find one or two gems through this web-site and expand our collection…

It all started back here!

When my then girl friend and now wife gave me a book about wine to take on holiday! Though I had always grown up around good wine, I had never really investigated why that was, or what made good wine.…