by Gareth Groves
“I am a legend!”
The great Ben Collins is indeed a Bibendum legend. He’s been here from the very beginning, half his life in fact, selling fine wine to the great and the good around the country. On Monday night more than a few Bibendumites gathered upstairs at our local The Lansdowne to celebrate his 60th birthday. As …
By Rob Pickard
For the last few days, myself and Fine Wine Marketer Juel Mahoney, have been in Brescia North Italy, for this year’s European Wine Bloggers’ Conference (EWBC). Set in the heart of the Franciacorta region, where some of Italy’s finest bubbles are produced, this fantastic conference brought together 216 individuals from all over the world; individuals who all share a passion …
by Gareth Groves
Good food would choose Bordeaux. Or so the current marketing campaign for the region’s wines would have you believe. To help prove the link between Bordeaux and fine grub, Bordeaux Wines organised a masterchef style cooking competition for members of the trade and press.
The competition was hotly contested. Two heats of six teams were whittled down to six …
By Rob Pickard
This week saw the launch of Bibendum’s very own delivery vans, with the trucks sporting our colours and loads of photos from our travels around the world and recent events.
With Bibendum’s move to Trade Team, it was possible to put our own stamp on our delivery vans with a blank canvas available for our …
On Tuesday, I was speed tasting some of the reds at our W1 tasting to check for TCA or other problems before we opened the doors. I wasn’t taking my time to think about balance, fruit or quality. I wasn’t writing notes and mentally composing potential food matches. It was open, pour, sniff, slurp, spit and …
By Gareth Groves
Yesterday was our Bibendum W1 trade tasting, held in the grand splendour of Chandos House in central London. Our resident photographer, Tom Jacques, was out and about with his camera and we’ve published some of his shots below. You can see more on Tom’s Flickr page.
The wines were looking great. Vietti Barolo …
The story of Priorat is one of the most amazing in wine. An isolated, deserted rocky wilderness to the south-west of Barcelona it has been transformed from a forgotten rural backwater to the home of Spain’s most expensive wine in just over 20 years…
Grown in some of the highest vineyards in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, this cracking Riesling offers awesome lime fruit, partnered with that flint and slate minerality which characterises the best Aussie Riesling.
By Rob Pickard
Over the last few weeks we’ve been having a sort out of the many thousands of images we have on file here in the marketing department. With so many producers and so many keen Bibendumites eager to visit these wine producing regions, we’ve over the years accumulated a huge array of winery and vineyard pics.
Big fans of wine and all …
By Jenn Sasiadek
Looking for the next big thing in wine? It might just turn out to be the Americas!
Historically the only South American wines to reach our shores came from Chile and Argentina, but with the emergence of exciting new regions, this is now a thing of the past. Gone also are the days of the sweet Zinfandel rosés and mass produced Merlots of …
