Extremely similar to the MMD Tasting that I went to, a couple of weeks later I was invited to Hatch Mansfield’s Autumn Tasting. I was lucky enough to be able to taste their entire range of producers wines and yours truly worked himself tirelessly in order to bring you all of the tasting notes and partial ratings. I say partial because I was only given roughly 10 minutes with each wine, so instead of giving them a single score, I decided to give them a ranged score. Once again we have many different countries with many producers and I will...

This tasting was one of intrigue more than anything else. As I am sure you are all aware Portugal is famous for its Port. However, it also makes many extremely good white and red wines. Generally speaking most white and red wines are blends. We are going to be focusing on red wines from the regions of Alentejo and Douro if that was not clear from the title! Douro The Douro is home to many a grape variety, all native to Portugal. These include but are not limited to Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo) and Tinta...

You may recall that I was lucky enough to be invited to the MMD Icon tasting last month. Well I have finally been able to get all of the tasting notes and scores written up for your perusal below. These wines span across France, Italy, Spain and USA. There is no particular order and you will need to filter through them all to find the ones that may interest you! They are generally new releases hence the young vintages but you will also find some older vintages. White Wines Pascal Jolivet Sancerre Les Caillotes 2022 – Rating 92-94 Beautiful citrus...

As I mentioned in our last article this was a bit of a randomised tasting. I quite literally picked up 4 very different bottles of wine, popped, poured and tasted them. The results I must say were fantastic and I thoroughly enjoyed every single one of them. So we have two from France. One from Alsace and the other from Burgundy (both white). Then we have one from the USA from Sonoma County and the other from Chile from the Aconcagua Valley. Now I know we just did a South American Cabernet tasting but this particular wine is very different...

Back to one of my favourite grape varieties. Admittedly it has only become my favourite in the last year or so due to these tastings that we have been doing. I just love the ability it has to change its fruit profile through different terroir. So here we have Cabernet blends, all wines are 80-90% Cabernet (some 100%) with either Syrah, Malbec and a smattering of others blended in. So here comes the knowledge part. We have 6 wines here, 4 from Chile and 2 from Argentina. Both countries are extremely well-known now for producing both affordable and extremely good...