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Tag: Ben Howkins

International Sherry Week 2021

10 November, 2021

Wine Webinar Series: Sherry – the finest wine

30 September, 2021

In memoriam: Steven Spurrier

31 March, 2021

Helping us through Lockdown

28 January, 2021

’Tis the Season for Cream Sherry!

10 December, 2020

Sherry: Raise a glass together

14 October, 2020

Important Reminders

3 September, 2020

It’s ‘En Rama’ Time!

26 May, 2020

Never Wait for that Special Occasion

28 April, 2020

Eat, Drink and Be Sherry No 5

15 April, 2020

Eat, Drink and Be Sherry No 4

26 February, 2020

Ben Howkins Takes a ‘Real’ Look at Sherry

23 January, 2020

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With the rise in popularity of light, dry, food-fr

With the rise in popularity of light, dry, food-friendly wines, Gewurztraminer from Alsace has fallen out of favour. Our contributor @andywine2021 thinks we’re missing out. To find out more about this iconic grape, he visited six producers of Grand Cru Gewurztraminer in Alsace, and discovered a precious FESTIVE season TREAT – ‘lightness’ may not be its calling card, but it is food friendly!

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@zindhumbrecht
@lucienalbrecht
@emilebeyer1580
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@domainemarceldeiss
👉Link in bio.

Our striking new hardback edition of Sherry is OUT

Our striking new hardback edition of Sherry is OUT NOW!

Join our next webinar Sherry — The Finest Wine this Wednesday and receive a special discount on the hardback edition of Sherry.

👉Book your tickets now. Link in bio.

First copies in of our latest Classics titles. Bea

First copies in of our latest Classics titles. Beautiful reads and as lovely today as they ever were, especially with new introductions from @fionamcleodmorrison and @eyresharry - thank you both so much.

The first in the series, In the Vine Country, was chosen as the best wine book of the year by the @washingtonpost. Start your collection now!

#winebook #classicliterature #oldiesbutgoodies

Stop whatever you do right now and go and listen t

Stop whatever you do right now and go and listen to this wonderful, wise and funny episode of Wineblast with Oz Clarke! @oz.clarke
Thank you, Susie and Peter! Thank you, Oz!
It’s available on all major platforms
The link can also be found in our bio.
Posted @withregram • @susieandpeter Oz Clarke has done most wine things you’ve ever thought of...and some you maybe never imagined 🤔🍷 But we’re not here to dwell on shenanigans in a Margaux vineyard (tho we do ask the question 😆🎙). This episode is all about OZ CLARKE OBE - wine titan, great storyteller, acclaimed broadcaster, surely the most successful person who’s ever claimed to have spent his, ‘while life avoiding getting a proper job.’ 🙏🥂

🎙 We try not to slur as we work our way through a bottle of Lagrange 1985 and discuss what Oz would criticise about wine today, climate change, natural wine, his favourite (& least favourite) grape varieties, Bordeaux, whether Burgundy should replant Pinot with Syrah (heresy though it might sound)...and why it’s important to disagree.

📚A sponsored episode in collaboration with @academieduvinlibrary, publishers of Oz Clarke on Wine, who are offering £5/$5 off the cover price when you use the discount code WINEBLAST5 on their site (see show notes, in biog, for link) 👍

@oz.clarke
@wine_blast
#wine #podcast #wineblast #wineloversofinstagram #mastersofwine #bordeaux #interview #ozclarke #podcastersofinstagram #climatechange #book

A huge thank you to @EricAsimov @nytimes for inclu

A huge thank you to @EricAsimov @nytimes for including our new book ON CALIFORNIA in his round-up of the best wine books of the year. Link in bio.

Many thanks to our fantastic editor @susan_keevil and wonderful contributors: @karenmacneilco @jane.anson Gerald Asher @jbonne Stephen Brook @hawk_wakawaka @oz.clarke Paul Draper @eyresharry Patricia Gastaud-Gallagher Randall Grahm @latashmw @victoria___james @hughjohnson479 William Kelley @adam_lechmere @marymargaretmccamic @elinmccoy @esthermob @fionamcleodmorrison @lisapbmw @rexpickett Margaret Rand Norm Roby Brian St Pierre @johnszaboms @bridevalleywine Bob Thompson @clare.tooley Larry Walker @kelliwhitewine Warren Winiarski

Join us for an evening with legendary sherry exper

Join us for an evening with legendary sherry expert @howkinsb as he guides you through the styles of sherry.
Sherry is the new darling of sommeliers worldwide and is seeing bar-side revival (from fino to fabulous!) as the game-changing ingredient of 21st-century cocktails. Ben explains all! 8th December at 18.30 GMT

👉Book your tickets @eventbrite. Link in our bio.
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We are thrilled to see In the Vine Country, On Cal

We are thrilled to see In the Vine Country, On California and Oz Clarke on Wine as
@washingtonpost’s Best Wine Books of 2021. Many thanks to @dmwine. Link in bio.

Thank you @karenmacneilco for all your support and

Thank you @karenmacneilco for all your support and the inclusion of On California in your @winespeed Holiday Gift Guide.

A great review too - “the writing is top notch, and the essays themselves bring California wine country to life as no other book has.”

#winebooksmakeperfectgifts #californianwine #giftideas

We’re very happy to announce that next month we

We’re very happy to announce that next month we release two new titles in the Classic Editions series.

📕In her introduction, @fionamcleodmorrison describes Stay Me With Flagons by Maurice Healy as ‘an amateur wine book, in both senses of the word. Healy is a passionate lover of wine whose story rollicks along with humour, passion, erudition and fun. And if his tales of the origins and history of events differ from our received wisdom, then we are all the more enlightened by his alternative version.’

📙A Contemplation of Wine by H Warner Allen is an entertaining study of wine through the ages, ‘you could read H Warner Allen’s delightfully discursive, compulsively rambling book as in essence a meditation on changing fashions in wine drinking, and gastronomy more generally’ writes @eyresharry in his introduction.

👉Pre-order now and get £2.50 off, add promo code classiced. Link in bio.

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Pre-order the Classic Series Collection (the four titles together) and save 20%. Link in bio.

It was great to attend the @ugcbwines tasting this

It was great to attend the @ugcbwines tasting this week. It felt like a very positive event with our own @oz.clarke working hard to taste a significant number.

I tasted far fewer in comparison but was impressed by everything I tried. I started with a white from Chateau Rahoul, with Peter Vinding Diers (@montecarrubo) in my mind. 61% semillion and 39% S.Blanc, with traces of grapefruit. My favourite Saint-Emilions were the Ch. Canon-La-Gaffelière (quite soft and herby) and the @latourfigeac (lovely fruit). Stars from Pomerol included @chateauclinet (some spice), @chateaupetitvillage and Ch. Rouget, all favourite of my sommelier at the table.

Two beautifully balanced wines from the Haut-Médoc were Ch. Coufran and Ch. La Tour Carnet. And favourites from Margaux were @chateau_cantenac_brown (very lively) and @chateaurauzansegla which was beautiful. From Saint-Julien, the @chateaubeychevelle was powerful with a lovely nose and the Ch. Léoville Barton was wonderfully fragrant and lively.

At the Pauillac table I started at the top end where none of the big names disappointed. @chateaugrandpuyducasse had aromas of fruit but something lavender in the mouth, which I enjoyed. @grandpuylacoste was darker with some lively fruit. @chateaulynchbages was fragrant and more tannic than its neighbours, with @chateaulynchmoussas showing lighter, redder fruit. And finally the @1965chateaupichonlongeville was very lively and vibrant with lots of wonderful fruits.

Interested in the stories behind the wines, and to learn more about the people who make them? But a copy of our On Bordeaux - link in the bio - where many of these, and many others, are featured.

#bordeaux #bordeauxwine #claret #2019vintage #winetasting #sommelier #wset #wineeducation #winebook #pomerol #margaux #pauillac #saintemilion #saintjulien #hautmedoc

A wonderful trip this week to @balfourwinery at th

A wonderful trip this week to @balfourwinery at their beautiful Hush Heath Estate in Kent. Great hospitality from Richard and Leslie, and a tour of the winemaking area with winemaker Owen.

I tasted some fabulous wines, both still and sparkling, including the Blanc de Blanc 14, the Blanc de Noir 18 (I think my favourite, which I bought), the Leslie Gold, the Nannette Rose, the Springfield Chardonnay 18 and the Luke’s Pinot Noir 20. All beautifully balanced. The BdN is complex, rich and slightly honeyed, the Chardonnay precise and pale with some beautiful warmth nevertheless.

They will be selling our books this Christmas so if you are a local, do visit to buy both books and wine.

#englishwine #englishsparkling #winebooks #winemakers

Posted @withregram • @howkinsb
A very spritely

Posted @withregram • @howkinsb
A very spritely 100 year old, full of character next to a jaunty youngster full of fresh ideas. And they are smiling at each other.
#Sherryweek @sherrywinesjerez

Whoever would have thought that sherry’s change in fortune would come about due to the onset of a global pandemic? True, the lure of Andalucía has always been strong. True, the quality of sherry – especially the dry sherries – has never been higher. True, the sherry producers have been gallantly trying to catch our attention for decades. But the coronavirus pandemic has caused us all to rethink our drinking habits. The long-lasting nature of sherry – and its out-and-out convenience – has proved a real bonus. Not only does a bottle of fino, manzanilla, amontillado, oloroso or palo cortado stay so wonderfully fresh for many days or weeks after the cork has been pulled at home, but the sheer bone-dryness of these fine wines makes them utterly brilliant as aperitifs. Move over champagne!

And so to the eighth International Sherry Week, which once again successfully highlights all the good and the great attributes of this flamenco-driven, albariza-grown, very English – sorry, very British – aperitif and original mixer. Indeed, it gives us good reason to celebrate our favourite sherry – either at home or away.

🥳Happy International Sherry Week!

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