Help The Hospitality Industry
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
Awesome Picks
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
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
Success for Giusy
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
South African wine crisis
Below is a post that some of you will already have seen either in the media or through a recent AWE mailing. All I would add to it is that
Bordeaux Wine Survey
With a chance to win Jane Anson’s excellent Inside Bordeaux tome, it’s worth having a go at Robert Joseph’s survey. It doesn’t take long and is quite fun to do.
Australian Wine Discovered
Wine Australia will be launching Australian Wine Discovered, a great new resource for wine educators, in January. “Available free to teach all levels from beginner to advanced, the programme is
AWE boasts 3 new Accredited Rhône tutors
AWE members Heather Dougherty, Patricia Stefanowicz MW and Gilbert Winfield are now Accredited Rhône wine tutors. Having spent four days in the region visiting producers and attending classroom lectures, they
FromVineyardsDirect tasting – CHANGE OF DATE AND LOCATION
FromVineyardsDirect will now be hosting a summer tasting on Thursday 21st June at the Orangery in Holland Park. There will be a selection of around 80 wines to try and producers
From Vineyards Direct portfolio tasting
Below are details of the upcoming FromVineyardsDirect portfolio tasting, which members may like to attend. Remember we do receive an educator’s discount from them, so it is well worth having
Great resource for educators from WSET
Many of you, as WSET alumni, will have received the recent WSET update which included a download of a report by Tim Jackson MW, Consumer Wine Education: Should The Wine Trade
Sherry
I dare say many of us will have been taught about Spanish wines and Sherry by Philip Rowles at some stage. At long last he has written a book on
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