Loire Wine Tours

A wine's quality can be judged by its bouquet and taste. The bouquet is the total aromatic experience of the wine. Assessing a wine's bouquet can also reveal faults such as cork taint, oxidation due to age, overexposure to oxygen, or lack of preservatives and wild yeast contamination due to yeasts. Although low levels of […]

Simon's wine blog today is about legs. No not human legs! The 'legs' on the side of a glass. They are caused by the difference in the rate of eveporation and the capillary tension between water and alcohol, and are that much larger when the alcohol content is high. Glycerol is one of the alcohols […]

Simon's wine blog is about chemicals found in fruit and veg. Although not directly related to grapes it highlights the issues surrounding spraying of chemicals on our raw food and how these are retained on the skin and within the food. A recent study by the Agri-food and Biosciences Institute in Northern Ireland examined whether food preparation […]

In the solera process, a succession of containers are filled with the product over a series of equal aging intervals (usually a year). One container is filled for each interval. At the end of the interval after the last container is filled, the oldest container in the solera is tapped for part of its content, […]

Simon's wine blog today is a resume of our wine tasting with a pub chain. Will not say who but we had a good meeting and the feed back on quality was great. All the wines tasted without exception were received with a good reception and that for us this is the most important issue. Yes […]

Simon's wine blog today is a walk through the pairing of wine and food. I'm off to meet the man who is  responsible for the wines at a pub group locally and they are very good at presenting their wines and food so I've had a go at doing some pairing myself. For starters I've married […]

Simon's wine blog. My blog today features, in all probability, the most important film premiere of the year bar none and with two Laws and two Graingers in the cast it's bound to cause a sensation amongst the film critics. I'll have to pass it onwards towards them and give them a nudge. I reckon we may […]

Simon's wine blog today is all about probably the most important film premiere of the year bar none and with two Laws in it and two Graingers its bound to cause a sensation amongst the film critics. I'll have to pass it onwards towards them and give them a nudge. I reckon we may be […]

Simon's wine blog today is about our short break residential wine tours in the Loire Valley France. Take either a 2 day (three night) tour or a 3 day (four night) tour. Arrive Day 1 in the afternoon in time for tea on the terrace and perhaps a rest by the swimming pool, under your […]