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‘Summer of Shellfish’ with Rick Stein’s Restaurants

Written by: Tom Gilbey

While traditionally August is a quieter month for us with London emptying and the wineries in France, Spain and Italy shutting down, this year we’re keeping busy with Rick Stein’s ‘Summer of Shellfish’ campaign that’s showcasing delicious lobsters, oysters, crabs and crayfish.

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Brilliance is Burgundy – The ‘how to’ guide on hosting a great Burgundy tasting

Written by: Tom Gilbey

Burgundy is a very impressive region and one of our absolute favourites to taste. Despite mainly showcasing two grape varieties, Burgundy offers a range of subtle flavours to explore, with quality being linked to the vineyards rather the wine growers and makers, it’s the best region to explore the influence of terroir – how the grape, soil and climate dictate the flavour.

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16 Grapes for Stage 16: Bikes and Wine, Le Tour de France

Written by: Tom Gilbey

One of our favourite games is finding an excuse to talk about and drink our wines. What better excuse is there than to find a “bike ride” (as Hamish describes it) that goes through one of our favourite and most diverse wine regions. Of course, we’re talking about Le Tour de France, with stage 16 starting tomorrow from Carcassonne.

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A Whirlwind Tour of the Loire

Written by: Tom Gilbey

With our wine of the week being Muscadet and with the temperature promising to hit 29 degrees, we’re shining a light on the Loire with its perfect selection of wines to match our pre summer holiday mood and the smiles on our faces now that summer’s definitely here.

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Fun ways that you can host a themed wine tasting at home

Written by: Tom Gilbey

Wine tasting is a great way to discover new wines and styles with a group of friends or a group who are yet to become friends but the problem we’re often faced with is that it’s just too stuffy and boring.  In my mind, wine tastings must never be that when there are so many ways you can create a really fun, memorable and relevant experience.  I like to choose themes to add depth and context to my wine tastings which certainly helps me enjoy it more and I’m told by .  So here’s one we did recently …..

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