By Rob Pickard
Following last week’s look at the Australian brewing icon, Coopers Brewery, in our first post looking at a range of unique Bibendum producers, we focus on one of Mexico’s finest exports, tequila, and the renowned El Tesoro de Don Felipe Tequila, part of the Bibendum portfolio of boutique spirit brands. El Tesoro is not …
By Rob Pickard
This is the first post in a series in which we will be bringing you a bit of interesting info into a range of Bibendum’s top producers. Highlighting our boutique range of tequilas and rums, to a selection of top wine estates and boutique wineries from across the globe. It’s a one stop shop for production methods, a …
by Donald Edwards, sommelier and wine blogger at http://notesfromthedregs.blogspot.com
The Spanish idolise the bull, the Toro is hewn into their collective subconscious like no other nation.
1942 when Miguel Fariña started making wines might as well be in the era of the Aurochs for all the wines resemble those of modern Toro.
Harvest was on the 12th of October every year, no one stopped to …
by Dan Coward, Lion Nathan Communications & Partnerships Manager
St Hallett’s senior winemakers, Toby Barlow and Stuart Blackwell (above), are the self-proclaimed hip-hop and hip-replacement of Barossan Shiraz. And both the zimmer frame and the diamond encrusted cane get plenty of use as they sashay their way through dozens of small fermenters and about 110 different Shiraz parcels each vintage. This is the backdrop to …
by Alex Bazeley
There’s a new blogger in town at Bibendum. Alex Bazeley, an ex-Oddbins Manager now a member of our Off Trade team, recently spent a year touring the vineyards of the Southern Hemisphere…lucky chap!
When he was away he wrote the excellent blog www.winetraveller.net. Now he’s back, we are hoping he will carry on blogging and write some articles for Bibendum Times. Here’s a taster of the Wine Traveller blog all about Alex’s …
This time last year, I was lucky enough to join in a vertical tasting of Wither Hills Pinot Noir, from its debut vintage in 2007 right up to the then just-released 2007. It was fascinating to see how the style of the wine has changed over the years. Obviously, vintage variation has a big part to play but it was clear that …
By Gal Zohar
If you’ve been following this space, you might have noticed a recurring theme. Lately we have been almost obsessed with the green (or Vivid in Bibendum speak) aspects of wine production. After discussing the real meaning of natural wines and exploring the philosophy behind biodynamic farming we thought we had covered it all. And then came Matt Oliver.
Matt is the vineyard manager …
By Bibendumtimes
Just when we thought we had everything in perfect order for next week’s Tasting, our French wine buyers Tim and Stuart reappeared from an early January visit to Chablis with the news that we needed to find room for two more growers. Patrick Piuze and Jean Defaix are two of the region’s leading producers and it is a fantastic coup for us to sign them …
By Gareth Groves
English wine is enjoying an unprecedented boom at the moment fuelled not just by our seemingly ever increasing demand for local, seasonal food but also by the rising quality of the wines themselves. Wine writers and connoisseurs who would have sneered at drinking English wine just a few years ago are changing their tune as the wines win top awards at major competitions and …
By Matt Douglas, owner & winemaker of Hawksburn Terrace, a tiny boutique winery in Bannockburn. Matt’s article is in response to Rebecca Gibb’s article on the end of the Central Otago Gold Rush
Some seven or so years ago, all the major (but still small!) producers in Central Otago created a joint marketing initiative called Central Otago Pinot Noir Ltd. It was the intention of …
