You know the moment. You’re two turns into the corkscrew, everyone’s watching, and the cork snaps in half. Now you’re not opening a bottle of wine. You’re performing minor surgery on a bottle of wine, fishing bits of cork out with the end of the screw while trying to look…
Pick up a bottle of wine from Italy, then one from Argentina, then one from South Africa. Different grapes, different climates, different languages on the label. And yet every single one holds exactly 750ml. Not 700. Not a clean, sensible litre. Just 750, over and over, no matter which side…
I need to tell you something I only properly understood recently, even though I’ve lived twenty minutes from the source for years now. Amarone was never supposed to exist. It’s a mistake. A genuinely accidental wine. Sometime in the 1930s, a producer left a barrel of Recioto, a sweet, dried-grape…
Here’s another thing worth knowing: Brut isn’t a different wine from Prosecco. It’s simply one of the sweetness levels you’ll find on the label. And despite what the names suggest, Extra Dry is the sweeter one. I’ve watched more than one dinner guest here in Veneto confidently order “the extra…
Here’s a story that sounds made up but genuinely isn’t. Sometime in the 13th century, Florence and Siena were locked in one of their endless territorial disputes, this time over the Chianti hills sitting between them. Rather than fight it out indefinitely, the two cities agreed to settle it with…
You are standing in a wine shop, staring at a wall of Italian bottles. Beautiful names. Beautiful labels. And then suddenly, confusion. One bottle says DOCG. Another says DOC. Another says IGT. You pick one up and think: “Am I supposed to know what these letters mean?” If Italian wine…
You’ve been looking forward to this holiday for months. You finally settle into your seat, buckle up, and hear the words every traveller loves: “Can I get you something to drink?” You don’t hesitate. “A glass of red wine, please.” The first sip arrives. And… It’s a bit disappointing. The…
There are two kinds of people in a restaurant. The first picks up the wine cork, gives it a confident sniff, nods once, and acts like they’ve just solved a mystery. The second secretly wonders if they’re supposed to do the same. If you’re in the second group, welcome. You’re…
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