The Rugby World Cup has just ended with the New Zealand All Blacks beating Australia in the final to be crowned World Champions. You many not be aware that the top rugby playing nations are also some of the finest wine producing countries in the
1. Most wine does not get better with age 85% of wines are made to be consumed within 1 to 3 years after being bottled. So unless you are buying, for example, a Burgundy or Claret to ‘lay down’, you should consider drinking your cellar rather
Here are 5 tips on wine etiquette for dinner parties. If someone has been kind enough to invite you dinner you should reciprocate the invitation by putting a little effort in selecting the wine. You will want to drink something decent and hopefully avoid the
Here are 5 quick wine tips for foodies. There are lots of 'food lovers' and amateur cooks who are very knowledgable and in many cases adventurous with food and ingredients but not when it comes to wine. So here are a some quick tips to help
It's really nice when you find wines that surprise in a pleasant way. When I am tasting and selecting wines from France for TheWinePlace.es more often than not a few wines from the Rhone Valley will stand out for being pleasantly surprising and score highly
A new mother's guide to wine tasting (while breast feeding). Things change in life, you age, you meet different people, change jobs, travel and start a family which tends to dramatically change your life in more ways than one. This includes your taste buds, time management
The other day a friend asked me “Why should wine drinkers in Spain buy imported wines?”, it is a fair question. However, if on the other hand, I had been asked, “Should wine drinkers in Spain drink imported wines?” I would say definitely, yes. I often say to
Always check the vintage before the cork is pulled. At this time of year, summer, I tend to drink young wines because they should be fresher. So it is very frustrating when ordering young wines in restaurants to be served wines from the previous vintage.
To discover Bodega 3T you have to go to Galicia, one of my favourite places to spend some time. This week I visited my friends Mario and Angel at their winery Bodega 3T in Vilanova de Arousa, near Pontevedra. The name 3T comes from the
Last week I was in the south of Italy tasting the wines of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples. I imagine that nearly everyone who reads www.thewineplace.es/wineblog has been to Rome or Naples but not to Ischia. Old friends from Australia had suggested that we
