by Juel Mahoney and Gareth Groves
Jerez Xeres Sherry
Sherry is one of those rare beasts - one of the world’s greatest wine styles that is easy to explore on a budget. Unlike Burgundy or Bordeaux, it is easy to taste some of the best the region has to offer without having to remortgage your house.
Sherry has fantastic complexity …
On his recent trip to Celler Espelt and the cava cellars of Segura Viudas, Adam Partridge finds some great wines – and Freddie Mercury pouring Cava in a tapas joint in Barcelona.
Up at 5am to catch the flight. We meant business.
Swapping autumnal Nottinghamshire for sunny Catalonia and taking a couple of days leave from their three restaurants, the …
by Juel Mahoney
Sijnn Wines is a new collaboration between winemaker Waldo Van Zyl, David Trafford and Simon Farr.
When Waldo recently visited Bibendum I asked him how David Trafford chose the vineyard site in this remote region of South Africa.
by Juel Mahoney
Txakoli is one of those wine geeky wines. For people who pride themselves on ordering complex wines, at first glance, Txakoli is a strange choice. Apart from the intimidating Basque X in the name, there’s not a lot to it.
And that’s not a criticism.
Txakoli (pronounced Cha-co-li) is a bone-dry, low-alcohol, relatively …
by Juel Mahoney
As the handover to Rio 2016 begins, all eyes will be turning to Brazil. With little information available about the region apart from a few cursory paragraphs in reference books, and not knowing a lot myself, I asked our South American wine buyer, Iain Muggoch, about this emerging wine region and what we can expect leading up to …
by Juel Mahoney
Have you noticed the Euro 2012 finals have all been wine countries? Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany. The only upside of the final (now England is no longer in it) is that Spain and Italy are two great wine countries. And what’s the first wines people say when they hear Spain and Italy?
“Rioja v Chianti!”
Of course, there’s a …
by Juel Mahoney
While there is still a perception out there that Soave is a cheap wine, I say - take advantage of it!
The good stuff is as refreshing on a hot day as jumping into a Lamborghini with cool white leather seats. So while most people’s ideas about Soave are stuck in the 1970s, there are some glamorous wines being overlooked.
“Italian wine is too complicated!” …
“I didn’t tell you to create a Carry On Boozing” – Lord Sugar
Well.
What did you think of the English Bubbles episode of The Apprentice?
Tonight Lord Sugar challenged the teams with a task to raise the awareness of English wine. Judged at Bibendum HQ by some of the big names in the English wine industry – including our very own MD, Michael Saunders – …
by Juel Mahoney
Now, you might think we are biased but we LOVE Moscato d’Asti from Vietti here at Bibendum. There’s always an exciting electricity in the room whenever a bottle is opened. Oh, the anticipation…
It is a sweet, frizzante, low alcohol wine at only 5.5% made in Piedmont in Italy. It tastes of peaches, rose petals, zingy ginger …
The 2010 Estate Rosé is a blend of a Reichensteiner, a white grape originally bred in Germany during the 1930’s, and Pinot Noir. This varietal blend has created an off-dry pale rosé, which has a nose packed full of rose petals and sweet berry fruit.
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