What Is Corked Wine, And How To Notice It

It is not bits of cork in your glass. It is a contamination compound most people have tasted without realising it.

What Are Dessert Wines?

Noble rot, frozen grapes, added spirit — sweetness that survives fermentation always takes a deliberate trick to get there.

How To Order Wine At A Restaurant

The list is built to overwhelm you into pointing at something familiar. Here is how to read it properly instead.

How To Seem Confident At The Wine Shop

Skip the medal stickers and the memorised vintage charts — here is what actually works standing in front of the shelf.

Wine Pairing Made Simple

Forget red with meat, white with fish. Weight, acidity, tannin and sweetness do all the actual work.

How To Store And Age Wine

No cellar required. Just somewhere dark, stable, and left alone — and an understanding of what actually ruins a bottle.

How To Taste Wine

Look, swirl, smell, sip, savour — what each step is actually for, and why most of what you call taste is really smell.

Find Out What You Like With A Simple Wine Tasting

No spittoons, no tasting notes, no exam. Just six glasses lined up in the right order and a decade of assumptions about what you like, corrected in one evening.

How To Read A Wine Label

Old World bottles look like they are hiding something. They are — it is just hidden in the label, in plain sight, in French.