Wine Wyse

Six pages of close type in a wine list, with around 60 wines per page, and that's only the red wines from one region of France. This was the range of wines from the Rhone Valley in a specialist wine merchants in the fabulous city of Lyon. The shop is called Malleval in Rue Emile Zola and has been serving its loyal local customer base since 1869. Of course, there are wines stocked from all over France and the nineteenth century underground cellars hold some 40,000 bottles, with a value of arou...

Winemakers Doing the Right Thing for the Environment Purato, a forward-thinking wine producer on the island of Sicily, is a leader when it comes to sustainability and environmental conscience. All large-scale agricultural activities undertaken by man have an impact on our environment. Our planet is being ravaged by man’s activities and those that have been watching ‘A Perfect Planet’ by the environmental demi-god David Attenborough, cannot fail to be shocked by the consequen...

Novel English Sparkler from Fox and Fox Wins Gold So, our somewhat muted Christmas festivities are well and truly over and here we are, nearly halfway through January in Lockdown Number Three. A definite sense of ‘Déjà vu’. This wine discovery, however, I am fairly convinced would not be on most people’s list of ‘Déjà Bu’! It is a sparkling Pinot Gris made by the award-winning English wine producer Fox and Fox, based in Mayfield, East ...