James Flewellen Wine

🥂💸 Anti-inflation SALE! 📉🥂

Anyone else fed up with literally everything getting more expensive these days??

🍷As a small relief for all you wine lovers, I'm having an anti-inflation sale on my wine study guides!

👍 20% off the entire collection until the end of July.

🤓 These innovative wine guides are perfect for wine lovers, wine students and wine educators to help advance your knowledge of wines.

There are two levels:

1️⃣ If you've just started your wine journey or are studying up to WSET level 3, go for the 'Intro' set.

2️⃣ If you're already pretty familiar with French wines and want to take your knowledge deeper, maybe you're studying (or teaching) WSET diploma, or French Wine Scholar programme, go for the 'Complete' set.

🇫🇷 There is a guide for every major wine region of France (and most of the smaller regions too!)

📢 🍾 A N N O U N C E M E N T 🍾 📢

🥂 I'm hugely excited to announce a new addition to my wine guide series – focusing on that bubbliest of wine regions, CHAMPAGNE! 🥂

With this guide, I have taken an approach different to other guides to Champagne.

You can expect:
🍾 A concise written summary of the Champagne region
🍾 A beautifully designed infographic wine guide
🍾 A schematic map of the Champagne region uniquely organised by terroir
🍾 All 17 regions of Champagne covered with useful data for your wine learning
🍾 Contextual information to help compare Champagne to other regions
🍾 and more!

💥 The guide is currently available for pre-orders, exclusively through my website, at a special discounted pre-order price of 20% off.💥

They will be printed and shipped mid-December and I have added some new (cheaper) shipping options for you!

Check out my website (🔗 in B10) for all the details.

PS – this is  a lovely, and well-priced, bottle of champagne from . Recommended.








 

A counterintuitive finding here on who prefers screw caps to corks in their wine bottles…

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2021/07/older-drinkers-prefer-screwcaps-to-corks-finds-wine-intelligence-study/

From The Drinks Business

Older drinkers prefer screwcaps to corks Contrary to popular belief, it is actually millennials who prefer cork-sealed bottles, with over 65s gravitating toward screwcaps, a new Wine Intelligence survey has found.

Thoughtful piece from Jamie Goode on who is innovating in the wine industry.

Who are the true innovators in the world of wine? – wineanorak.com Features  Who are the true innovators in the world of wine? March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 jamiegoode 4287 Views Natural wine Who is leading innovation in the world of wine? It’s not the big wine companies. It’s not people using cans or strange shaped bottles. It’s rarely those who criticise th...

UK wine is getting even bigger…

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2021/07/foster-design-for-uks-biggest-wine-project/

From The Drinks Business

Foster design for UK’s biggest wine project - The Drinks Business Famous architect firm Foster and Partners has designed a winery for what will become the UK’s biggest single wine producer when its plantings mature.

I’ve had a real chuckle lately at these *genuine* wine tasting notes:

Crap Tasting Note of the Year: Overall Winner - Fake Booze Which ball of dung rose to the top of the Crappies' cess pool? This one. Our Crap Tasting Note winner this year is 100 words of pure genius.

A really lovely story from The Drinks Business:

'Mystery Man' leaves tip 400 times bigger than his bill at restaurant An incredibly "mystery man" customer at a restaurant in the United States left staff stunned after he gave a huge tip.

A related piece to the one I posted last week on tasting notes, this is an interesting comment on the evolving language of wine tasting from Jancis Robinson :
https://admin.jancisrobinson.com/articles/evolving-language-wine

The evolving language of wine | JancisRobinson.com Resize Back to all articles Share Jancis Robinson 5 Jun 2021 Free for all tasting WSET The evolving language of wine Free for all tasting WSET Is wine vocabulary too Eurocentric? A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Think about all those TV cooking shows. What is their weak...

I take a relaxed approach to tasting notes in wine: words work for some, not for others. Always important to acknowledge this and to keep in mind that what is in my tasting reference might not be in yours. From Wine Searcher.

Science Makes a Mockery of Tasting Notes | Wine-Searcher News & Features Your wine tasting notes are probably wrong – for other people, at least. Read the latest wine news & features on wine-searcher

After last month’s summit hosted in Cornwall, and the news that Camel Valley Vineyard wine was served to the world leaders, have a read through my piece on the wine scene in Cornwall, including a brilliant visit to Camel Valley.

The wine scene in Cornwall — James Flewellen Wine Taking another bend, the road narrows further. The beech trees bow together to enclose us in an emerald tunnel and the hawthorn scrapes at the wing mirrors.