Whose book shelf hasn’t displayed an edition of Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopaedia? Whose fingers haven’t flipped the pages to learn, to refresh or to check? Whether you’re a wine pro or […]

March 13th 2020 was the last time I travelled into London.  The first lockdown started early for us, as emails came in over that weekend postponing all my wine teaching […]

In those untroubled, pre-pandemic times, a highlight of my year was the Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Médoc tasting – always a privilege to taste so many top quality Bordeaux […]

I’m not sure how I came by Oenologique. I found it on the floor with my Sunday papers but I can’t believe that it would have been delivered as a […]

It’s the Big English Wine Easter this week-end so make sure you’ve got a bottle or two of English wine to hand with which to celebrate. Jacob Leadley of Black […]

Baldons Wine Club members love 100AWEsome Wines If 100AWEsome Wines feels like 97 too many, here are 3 ‘pick of the bunch’ wines from three of our favourite BWC tutors…. […]

100 AWEsome Wines is now online and live In view of how our teaching has changed over the last 12 months and continues to be more virtual than actual, for […]

I’m delighted  to congratulate one of AWE’s newer members on her recent success. Giusy Andreacchio has  passed the French Wine Scholar certificate from the Wine Scholar Guild with the highest […]