By Rob Pickard
Following this week’s video post on Stonier’s focus on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in the Mornington Peninsula, next up is another cracking video straight from the vineyards of Victoria. Senior Winemaker Mike Symons, takes us through Stonier’s detailed selection of single vineyard sites in the Mornington Peninsula, their individual terroir characteristics and the resulting Stonier wines….
By Rob Pickard
Based in one of the New World’s leading cool climate regions, and without doubt one of the most exciting wine regions in Australia, Stonier has long been famous for making some of the Mornington Peninsula’s finest Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Mornington is a fantastic region that offers a cool, maritime climate, ideal for growing these classic Burgundy varieties. Forget …
Huia Pinot Noir is a brilliant example of elegant Kiwi Pinot, offering up seriously smooth, rich red berry fruits, alongside lots of smoke and spice.
By Rob Pickard
Yesterday evening the Bibendum Tastemaster left Imbibe Live after a thoroughly enjoyable two days of full-on wine and spirit antics. In our previous Imbibe Live post earlier in the week, we posted a few photos of the arrival of the Tastemaster at Earls Court and the set up, well here is a quick rundown on our …
by Gareth Groves
Gooseberries might just be the most underrated of our summer fruits. Pale green rather than sexy raspberry red and lip-puckeringly tart rather than super-sweet, they tend to get overlooked. It’s a shame because gooseberries deserve a lot more of our attention – especially when turned into a fool, which is officially The Best Thing You Can Eat in Summer.
At its simplest a fool is …
There were an awful lot of fantastic wines at our Americas’ Most Wanted Tasting on Tuesday: old Californian Pinots from Calera, the latest releases of Catena’s stunning single vineyard Malbecs and Corison Cabernet to name but a few. However, the wine that really made me smile is a tiny-production, old vine Carignan from Chile…
By Rob Pickard
With the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel’s Booking Office Bar officially launched earlier this month, the bespoke drinks menu, designed by Bibendum and consultancy firm Strange Hill, is bringing long lost Victorian punch recipes back to London’s bar scene.
The new menu offers customers an interesting look at an era when mixed drinks were beginning to emerge within …
By Rob Pickard
Yesterday Bibendum’s offices were packed full of some of both North and South America’s most wanted wines, from small boutique wineries in Chile’s Maule Valley and Campanha in Brazil, to the big boys of Washington State and Napa.
The idea was to bring together, for one day only, a bunch of highly-sought after and rarely seen wines with a few off-the-wall artisan bottles …
By Rob Pickard
Following a recent run of updates on Australia’s 2011 vintage on B Times, we wanted to know how producers had fared in 2011 on the other side of the globe. And with Valdivieso’s winemaker Brett Jackson stopping by Bibendum HQ this week, we cornered him for his thoughts on how the vintage went down in Chile.
Known as a country with climatic conditions perfect for …
By Rob Pickard
At B Times we love to hear about green initiatives that are taking place in the vineyards and wineries around the world, and are big fans of sustainability and environmental practices in wine. Recent posts have highlighted green initiatives in South Africa at Graham Beck Wines and SAAM, water management at Mitchelton in Victoria and …
