• Cases of wine on sale for £20 after Sheffield firm Hallamshire Wines ceases trading

    Twelve-bottle cases of wine are being auctioned off for £20 after a Sheffield company ceased trading. Hallamshire Wines, of Penistone Road, Grenoside, has folded after 30 years and stock is being sold pending the appointment of liquidators. It includes 190 cases of white, red and rose wine. Most are 12-bottle and have a starting price of £20. Auctioneers Walker Singleton is hosting an online sale. Bidding has started and closes at 12pm on Thursday, April 4. Director, Stephen Jones, said: "As a...

  • Reb Chaim’s Wine. What Is It?

    The Siyumim Wine is the wine Rav Chaim made siyum hashas on, prepared especially for him by his talmid. Receive this special Siyumim wine from Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt”l! Today is still Purim and you can merit the great mitzvah of Pidyon Shvuyim (Redeeming of Captives) through Yad L’Achim on this holy day. You can […]

  • Wines for great Easter feasting

    Domaine des Tourelles Cuvée Pierre Brun, Lebanon 2020, £14.99, or £11.99 as

  • Who poured millions of euros into Slovak wine?

    Rich people, oligarchs and ex-politicians invested in wineries.

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    Drinking Wine Can Improve Your Driving

      A story shared by JJ Hayes   Okay, there is a lot to unpack with a headline like that. I’m not suggesting you drink a couple of bottles of wine and get immeditely behind the wheel.

  • Underwater wine: Aging in Murcia’s depths

    IMAGINE wines aging not in traditional cellars but beneath the sea’s surface. In Águilas, Murcia, Bodegas Verónica pioneers this unique process, maturing wines at a depth of forty metres below the sea, where darkness and marine silence contribute to their transformation. Spearheaded by entrepreneur Pedro Martínez Cáceres, this venture requires extensive knowledge of both winemaking […]

  • Spring into action and snap up a seasonal wine deal

    The big supermarkets roll out the multibuy deals around Easter time, but if you can remember to support your local indie, tooEarly Easters are tricky from a wine point of view: you feel as if it should be properly spring by the end of March, but it’s so often not (it’s only 3C outside as I’m writing this, a couple of weeks ahead). My instinct, then, is to be cautious and behave as if it’s still winter, not least because very few people are going to complain about a full-bodied red or the lack of...

  • Wines to have at Easter – including bottles to pair with chocolate

    Which wine goes with massive chocolate Easter Eggs? We’ve got a pairing for every Easter Sunday course The long weekend is going to be here soon, bringing with it Easter Sunday, a celebration that is full of traditional foods and feasting. With so many dishes, it’s a perfect excuse to dive into a few different []

  • Wine Guy: Sip and support British Columbia

    Opinion: To say B.C.’s wine industry is having a tough go of things would be an understatement, but we can show our support by buying B.C. wine.

  • Rebuilding wine sales in China to take time: minister

    China’s removal of punishing tariffs on Australian wine imports will be celebrated with the popping of corks over the Easter weekend but rebuilding the $1.1 billion trade will take time, an assister minister says. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced late on Thursday it was “no longer necessary” to impose sanctions on Australian wine imports. […]

  • There's a new option for a river cruise through Portugal's wine country

    Editor’s note: TPG’s Gene Sloan accepted a free trip from Avalon Waterways to get an early look at the new Avalon Alegria. The opinions expressed below are entirely his and weren’t subject to review by the line. Avalon Waterways is the latest river cruise line to launch sailings on the Douro. The Denver-based brand on …

  • China removes tariffs on Australian wine as relations improve

    It comes as relations have improved since a new Canberra government was elected in 2022.