Is wine good for you? And if it is.. What wine is good for you? If you love drinking wine and why wouldn’t you? You might be curious about the impact that it is having on your health. So, is wine good for you? No really, is it? Please say it is…. A little research […]
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Jan
Jan
So you’ve decided to go vegan, surely you can still enjoy a glass of lovely wine whilst munching on your carrot stick? The Vegans are coming! Despite sounding a little like something from and early Star Trek script that never made it past the first reading stage, veganism is not a new concept. In fact, […]
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Dec
Dec
Naturally our very top choice of festive tipple would be wine, that’s a given. Obvs! However, there is always room for something a bit different during the festive season. We decided to have a bit of a straw poll at Inspiring Wines Towers this week and come up with our list of our very favourite […]
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Dec
Dec
“Oh yes we do”…..In true panto style! I now have to mention the ‘C’ word! There really is no getting away from it, unless of course you are actually ‘getting away from it’… to the sun drenched beaches of Peurto Vallarta or some other such glorious destination. For us mere mortals, Christmas is but days […]
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Oct
Oct
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 […]
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Aug
Aug
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 […]
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Jul
Jul
How to Taste Wine – 4 Simple Steps There is a lot written about tasting wine properly, probably far too much, (and I say that as I am about to write a piece about how to taste wine…) there is a wealth of information available on this here ‘interweb’ but in reality if you are […]
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Champagne – Is France’s finest still the undisputed champion of the world?
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Jul
Jul
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 […]
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Jun
Jun
Biodynamic Wine – What is that all about? Proper science or new age guff!? Have you come across biodynamic wine yet? Have you tried it? You may already be a fully-fledged ‘biodynamophile’ (I may have just made that word up..) but if you are yet to be enlightened, then it is very likely you will […]
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Jun
Jun
The Inspiring Wines Guide How to blag your way through a wine tasting! Have you ever been to a wine tasting? Ever wanted to go but have always shied away on the grounds you think you’d be out of your depth? Well fear not, here are our Top 5 ‘inspiring’ tips to ensure you can […]