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01/10/2014
Albet i Noya is an organic wine estate in Penedès, north-east Spain (near Barcelona). Wine has been made at this site since the middle ages, but the Albet family first arrived here in 1903, replanting the estate following the Phylloxera plague, which wiped out the vast majority of Europe’s vineyards around this time. By 1978, […]
17/09/2014
The day we went for a spin round Albury Vineyard Earlier this year, during one of those moments of looking out of the window at the beaming sunshine, I thought to make a plan, to get out and visit one of our suppliers. We’re lucky in that we have so many dedicated, skilled and interesting […]
03/09/2014
Franciacorta is Italy’s top appellation for the production of classic method sparkling wines which are made using production techniques similiar, and in some ways, even stricter to those used for the making of Champagne. Sparkling Franciacorta enjoys DOCG status since 1995, and is in the region of Lombardy, midway between Milan and Venice. Chardonnay […]
24/05/2014
Celebrate English Wine Week! Great Britain has for a long time been considered as the greatest and most diverse wine market in the world. For centuries we have been able to buy fine wines from all over the world, yet traditionally, you wouldn’t buy wine made in Great Britain. But times are changing, and England is […]
14/05/2014
Get into good spirits ARTISAN ORGANIC SPIRITS About 98% of Brazil’s famous spirit Cachaca is drunk within the country, and much of what is exported is of ‘industrial’ grade. Abelha Organic Silver Cachaça is different and starts life in Bahia, Northern Brazil, where a collective of small-holding farmers grow sugar cane 100% organically on highland […]
17/04/2014
Why do Skodas have a heated rear windscreen? To keep your hands warm while you push them. So the jokes used to go when I was younger. This was despite the fact that Skoda had by this time already been producing highly rated, good value cars for a number of years – it can take […]
10/12/2013
Written by guest blogger Greg Pilley, Stroud Brewery Founder Stroud Brewery in Gloucestershire produces a range of organic bottled and draught beers using whole hops and malt from Warminster Maltings in Wiltshire, Britain’s oldest working traditional floor maltings. It’s a great relationship as the Warminster ‘Warranty of Origin’ scheme guarantees Stroud Brewery a malt supply […]
31/10/2013
How have I got to the grand old age of 53 and not visited Paris properly? Previously I had only ever travelled through and across it, asleep in the back of a car or switching trains at night to travel onward to the south. It was an offer email that came through from Eurostar that […]
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