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What White Wine Should You Drink With Strawberries?

6 June 2011
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The tennis season is upon us and thoughts are turning to the traditional Wimbledon treat of a bowl of strawberries. It is estimated that around 28,000 kilos of strawberries are eaten each year during the two weeks of the tournament and pictures of supporters enjoying their strawberries and Champagne have become synonymous with Wimbledon. However, [...]

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WSET Diaries Part 8: The EXAM

17 May 2011
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Read the rather inconsequential Week 7 on my blog, if you feel the need. Right – exam time. All those many weeks of immersing myself in wine (not literally of course) are finally put to the test. All those minutes spent idly flicking through pages and pages of the WSET textbook in the final minutes [...]

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Ultimate White Wine Father’s Day Treats For Dad

13 May 2011
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Planning to buy a bottle of white wine for Dad this Father’s Day? Stop right there. While a bottle of his favourite white wine might raise a smile on the day, it hardly ranks among the most original gift ideas of all time. This year, instead of taking the easy option and making a trip [...]

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Alternative White Wines For Easter Holiday Lunches

25 April 2011
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With the Easter holidays in 2011 falling later in the year than usual, there’s plenty of scope to be imaginative with food and white wine choices when planning Easter holiday lunches. The warmer weather means that there are plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables to be sourced locally when preparing lunches or dinners and it [...]

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The Modern Day Wine Drinker

14 April 2011
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The way in which we consume wine is markedly different now from days gone by. Wine has evolved from a sophisticated drink of the elite, to an everyday beverage that is closely linked with modern ideas on lifestyle, and today we have available to us variety and choice like never before. Nowadays our selection of wine is informed [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 6: A Sound Like A Contented Lady

8 April 2011
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Read Part 5 on our sister site RedWine.co.uk. Sparkling wine, sweet wine, Sherry and Port; also known as ‘other’, if not ‘misc’. I was surprised, but not especially bothered, that rosé wines don’t seem to have featured at all in our tastings yet, but that’s fine – I know what they taste like, and about once a [...]

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Wine Fridges

25 March 2011
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Wine enthusiasts with an eye on the latest trends in the white wine world can’t have failed to notice the sudden rise in popularity of wine fridges. For those who consider themselves a cut above the casual white wine consumer, gone are the days of leaving bottles in the wine rack, to be chilled in [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 3: Facing One’s Prejudices

18 March 2011
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Read Part 2 on our sister site RedWine.co.uk. Well, I went into week three of my WSET Intermediate wine course thinking Spain makes great, affordable reds and passable whites; Portugal makes port and not much else; and Italy makes a load of old rubbish that tastes like watery tar and invariably costs too much. (The only [...]

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The Symbolism of Wine Through the Ages

15 March 2011
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From the very earliest civilisations right up to the modern day, wine has been imbued with symbolism. Its symbolism has related to status, religion and sexuality; when we consider what wine represented for people in different eras, we must also consider the wider social and cultural context from whence these symbols emerged. It is interesting to note [...]

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Austerity Wines

11 March 2011
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There’s nothing like a huge economic downturn for making people rethink their spending habits, but that’s not to say that the nationwide belt-tightening has led us Brits to give up the finer things in life, like white wine, altogether. Rather, it seems we have had a collective dwell on how we can continue to sip [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 1: Fun is Over – This is Serious

1 March 2011
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Read the introductory Part 0 on my blog, Coin du Vin, here. It’s on! My slow and painful ascendancy to the top of the international wine industry has finally begun in earnest with Week 1 of my WSET Intermediate certificate evening class in a classified location in an indoor bowling centre somewhere in the South [...]

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