Author Christine Austin

‘We are absolutely delighted to have won Regional Wine Merchant of the Year for The North of England in The International Wine Challenge, said House of Townend’s Managing Director, John Charles Townend....

‘We had a fabulous wine tasting experience. Until this trip the regions of Beaujolais and the Rhône were just names on wine labels, but after my visit to Henry Fessy and Vidal-Fleury, I feel as if I really...

‘At the last count we had 322 gins, but we are moving our stock of Burgundies to another part of the shop just to make more room for gin. That means we will soon have enough space for 500 different gins,’...

One of the best tastings I have been to is held each year in the delightful spa town of Wiesbaden in Germany. It is the VDP tasting when top wines from all the wine regions are presented in a format that only...

It may be a grape that plays hard to get but Albariño is all the rage in Spain

Wine consultants are those rare breed of people who can fly into a different country each week, pitch up at a winery, help the local people through a particular tricky bit of blending or tasting and fly out...

Over the last few years I have become increasingly impressed by the wine range in the Co-op. Their team of buyers frequently go off-piste to find distinctive wines that other retailers are not selling, and...

With summer days ahead it is time to find the best rosé wines and get them in the fridge ready for when the sun shines. Pale, subtle, and definitely chilled, rosé is the wine for garden parties, picnics,...

Harrogate Wines has only moved 50 yards around the corner into Montpelier Street but the difference between the old premises and the new is dramatic. Although the shelves of this gem of a wine shop are still...

  I was really glad of my several layers of rainproof clothing as I watched vines go into the ground just two weeks ago. In cold blustery weather, with the rain beating down, a team of 5 French...