The Oxford Wine Academy

03/04/2017

New page on wine blind tasting https://www.facebook.com/blindtasters/

Blind tasting news and angles from Neel Burton, author of The Concise Guide to Wine & Blind Tasting. Also on Twitter as

04/12/2016

...the Pol Roger 2002 was the fourth favourite wine overall and *preferred to the Sir Winston Churchill*.

‘If you choose your vintage champagne carefully, there may be no need to shell out for a prestige cuvée’

02/11/2016

Clip from Granada Television's 1981 mini-series of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, featuring Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder and Anthony Andrews as Lord S...

15/09/2016

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
—Winston Churchill

27/08/2016

Forget the Olympics. Wine should guide Britain’s approach to Brexit

22/08/2016

It's Pinot Noir day on August 18 and time to celebrate one of the world's most popular wine grapes. A thin-skinned grape, it produces wines with an intensity that oozes summer flavours of ripe cherries, wild strawberries and crushed berries. Add to that a velvety smoothness and an underlying complex...

19/08/2016

Superb primer on Swiss wine

A Political Overview Switzerland is a federation of 26 cantons, each with a high degree of autonomy, under a decentralized, federal government located in Bern. Its three main cultural and linguisti…

04/08/2016

History of winemaking in Ethiopia

The history of wine making in Ethiopia is as old as the history of the nation. Professor Richard Pankhurst in the December 2006 Journal of Ethiopian studies (vol. 39:1-2), noted that grapes and wine were apparently well known in Ethiopia in early Axumite time and used to be imported at Axum through…

19/05/2016

As in his lifetime, wine is still produced from the estate of philosopher & writer Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592).

07/04/2016

“Many Georgian wines may lack the sophistication of wines produced with the help of modern technology,” said Carla Capalbo, a food and wine writer, but at their best, “qvevri wines are like a pure expression of the fruit uncluttered by layers of oak, toast or tricks.”

The Georgian province of Kakheti has charming small towns, idyllic countryside and an ancient winemaking tradition that’s just starting to catch a buzz

06/04/2016

What has tasting taught me about myself that I wouldn't otherwise have learned? By Tim Gaiser

Tasting is the heart and soul of what we do as wine professionals. It’s both the “work” we do and also the most enjoyable thing about our profession. Any career in wine—whatever...

19/03/2016

Scent artist Sissel Tolaas uses chemistry to explore the malodorous, yet beautiful, scent of decay in Central Park