Category Archives: Style

Tinder for your dinner! – How to find it the perfect match

Juicy Steak with red wine - perfect match - Inspiring Wines

Pairing wine with food is a minefield for some, finding the perfect match is one of those somewhat pithy topics on which opinion can be very often divided and many people are simply baffled by. If ‘white with fish’ and ‘red with meat’ is about as good as it gets for you then here are […]

Is Rioja Really the Only Game in Town When it Comes to Spanish Wine?

Spanish wine in Porrons - Is Rioja still the best of Spain - Inspiring Wines

At Inspiring Wines we don’t think so! When people talk about Spanish wines the conversation almost always moves very quickly towards Rioja; dark, brooding, dusty bottles, some kind of bull on the label and that gold wire wrapped around a traditional Rioja bottle. The wire incidentally was designed as a historic security measure for high […]

Champagne – Is France’s finest still the undisputed champion of the world?

Closeup Champagne bubbles at Inspiring Wines

Does Champagne remain Queen of the business we call fizz? Champagne has the history, the sophistication, the famous houses, the weight of years of lavish marketing behind it, no doubting that. But in these austere, less ostentatious times in which we live, are there new pretenders to the crown? We ask, is France’s Old Lady […]