Wine Sediments

The head of Bollinger Champagne is getting in a tiz over French supermarkets selling his wine because they are ‘destroying the brand’s upmarket reputation’. He is threatening to sue.
French supermarkets are selling Champagne Bollinger as low as 27, compared with a standard retail price of up to 70 in France.
“It’s a veritable organised […]

Health Warnings on wine bottles - that is the headline in many UK newspapers this weekend announcing the governments plans to introduce a standard warning on all drink bottles next year.
It comes after pressure from the EU but is also part of the governments drive to tackle alcohol abuse and binge drinking. The warnings will […]

What wine do you serve with Indian food? My answer is usually beer, but if pressed I go with an dry Riesling or a spicy Gewurztraminer. Now there’s another option: Indian wine.
Sula Vineyards harvests grapes from several hundred acres in the mountainous Western Ghats of India. The wine is made in neighboring Nashik and […]

A big question for wine lovers in France and, indeed, all over the world, is whether a bottle is ready to drink, or ‘prête à boire’. Since wine changes with age, some excellent wines may be barely palatable if drunk too young. On the other hand, wait too long and you may find your wine […]

Cue trumpets…. wait for applause to subside… all sit down now please… for I have a little announcement - we here at Wine Sediments are to have a special day, a special day each and every month.
On this day, grandly titled Great Grape Day, we will feature a number of posts all related to […]

Our regular Saturday look at the wine blogsphere…
Wine Blogging Wednesday is dominating the wine blogosphere/wineosphere/vinoblogs or whatever you want to call it. This month it is hosted by Beau at Basic Juice. In typical Beau fashion he has crafted a little competition on to the usual event. Guess the wines and win…
Amongst his […]

While Maryland might not be the first place you think of when you’re thinking about wine, wine-minded Marylanders were out in full force the weekend of October 7-8 to taste the offerings of some of Maryland’s finest wineries at the annual Riverside Winefest at Sotterly Plantation.
Eager tasters braved a deluge Saturday and lingering mud on […]

Part III of Report from the Road: Cakebread Cellars American Harvest Workshop
To pick up where the last post left off –
In any pairing attempt, another important thing to remember is to match the power of the wine and the food. This is probably the rule from which red with steak, white with fish was originally […]

The Sacramento Bee’s Mike Dunne reports that the Governator, I mean Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, recently signed legislation “to prohibit the use of ‘Sonoma’ on bottle labels unless at least 75 percent of the grapes that make the wine are grown in Sonoma County.” He points out that the label at right will […]

Fresh magazine is one of the top UK food publications. Their wine content is rather good and this month recommends 15 wines
Whites:
Honeywood Sauvignon Blanc 2005 (5.99 Tesco) A few bottles of this has passed through the Barrow household recently (I think it was on offer) for a tasting note see Spittoon.
Brown Brothers Chenin Blanc […]