By Rob Pickard
Following on from last week’s post, The Vineyards of Europe – In Pictures, where I posted a few images we had dug up following a sort out of our photo library here in the Marketing department. Here is another selection of great photos, but this time from a few of our New World producers.
Accumulated over the years, these are just …
By Rob Pickard
South African big guns Graham Beck are in town for this week’s London International Wine & Spirit Fair, and amongst a whole host of superb wines from the vineyards of Robertson and Franschhoek, the Graham Beck team are showcasing their Game Reserve range.
These wines take their name from the game …
I love Champagne as much as the next man, especially if someone else is paying. Over the last decade the prices of NV Champagnes have risen sharply. When once you could almost always pick up a Grande Marque for under £20 from somewhere like Oddbins, now anything under £30 is marketed as the best deal since the Yanks bought Alaska. It rather makes the bubbles stick in one’s throat. Bargain-loving fizz fans need an alternative…
By Ben Turner
The greening of the wine industry as a whole is bigger and bigger news each year. Many vineyards the world over are making their wines organic or their vineyards sustainable, as an ever increasing number of consumers become ever more savvy to the concept. The folks down at South Africa’s Graham Beck are no exception with their successful environmental practises.
The statistics are convincing. For …
by Bibendum Times
We arrived into work yesterday to the sad news that Graham Beck, the man behind the brand had passed away. Our thoughts are with his wife of 50 years, Rhona, and all the Beck family.
Graham was a pioneer of the modern South African wine industry and a pivotal figure in its resurgence in the years following the end of …
We’ve reached a crucial stage in the build up (why build up, but count down? Oh well…) to the UK’s largest wine event in the calendar, the London International Wine fair (LIWF), next week at Excel. The integrity of our pants is under threat from the sheer anticipation. Seriously! If we can negotiate this tricky stage then it will be plain sailing from then on won’t it…?
But why …
