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Wine tasting tips #7: 2012; A Wine Maker’s Vintage

Wine tasting tips #7: 2012; A Wine Maker’s Vintage

This week Master Sommelier at the Borrowdale Hotel, Stephen Wilcock explains why 2012 may make a good year for wine. The weather has such a major effect on the outcome of the year’s growth we should look at how it affects vine growing during the year.  More

Wine Tasting Tips #3: A rotten bunch – how sweet wine is produced

Wine Tasting Tips #3: A rotten bunch – how sweet wine is produced

Master Sommelier at the Borrowdale Hotel, Stephen Wilcock takes us through the interesting and unusual use of rotten grapes to produce deliciously sweet wines.  More

Wine Tasting Tips #2: Serving Wines at the Correct Temperature

Wine Tasting Tips #2: Serving Wines at the Correct Temperature

Temperature is probably the most crucial factor to appreciate any wine at its best.

There is an adage that the English drink their white wines too cold and their red wines too warm.  The temperature a wine is served can show the wine off to its best advantage and will allow us to appreciate the wine. More

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