Wine Tips: Blazing BBQ Reds
Back to Guides & Advice FOOD PAIRING BBQ: Blazing Reds Sunny days and longer evenings, with the warmth of the sun on your face are the best tonic for the soul. With sizzling fare from the BBQ and a decent glass of wine in your hand, what could be more blissful? Wine and food pairing […]
Top 10 Under £10: June
Back to Guides & Advice TOP PICKS Top Ten Under £10! Offering brilliant value for money, these super quaffers are full of character and quality. Perfect for stocking up on and ensuring there’s always a delicious bottle (or two) to hand. White under £10 2020 Vinho Verde, Casa de Vila Nova, Portugal – £9.50 A […]
Just Divine: Sushi & Wine
Back to Guides & Advice FOOD PAIRING Just Divine: Sushi & Wine When it comes to wine pairing, balance is the key, with neither the wine nor sushi should overpower the other. Typically, the best wines to pair are light to medium-bodied wines with medium to high acid and lower alcohol. However, the fillings, ingredients […]
Our Latest Crush! Montresor Bio
Back to Guides & Advice MOKE’S NOTES Our Latest Crush: Montresor Bio, Verona Montressor Bio is a project from one of Verona’s historic houses, founded by Giacomo Montresor in 1892, with a reputation for high quality and affordable Valpolicella and Amarone. In recent years, the range has grown steadily with vineyards being developed in Friuli […]
Gifting Wine to Godchildren
Back to Guides & Advice MOKE’S NOTES Gifting Wine To Godchildren In Victorian times, it was traditional to cellar a “pipe of Port” (approximately 61 cases) for your children when they were born with a view to them starting to drink it 21 years later when both the children and the Port had matured. The […]
A-Z Producer List
A-Z Producers Producer Profiles As a truly Independent Wine Merchant, we have tasted thousands of wines to narrow down the selection of what makes the list. Many of the growers and domaines are the same as when we started, but over time our range has developed in terms of depth and breadth, and there’s still […]
A brief introduction to wine by country
Back to Guides & Advice MOKE’S NOTES Whirlwind world tour: A brief introduction to wines by country France The most famous wine growing country and second largest producer of wine in the world, is dominated by red wine production. Whilst wine is produced all over France, Alsace, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Provence, Rhone and […]
What to Drink: Taco Tuesday
Back to Guides & Advice FOOD PAIRING Wines to drink: Taco Tuesday! Always a crowd pleaser, the traditional Mexican dish of a tortilla (corn or flour), topped with a filling, folded and eaten by hand. With so many variables from steak to chicken, fish to prawn or veggies and then topped with salsa, guacamole, sour […]
Party Wines To Impress Your Guests
Back to Guides & Advice WINE TIPS Impress your party guests with wines to suit the mood, food & purse Hosting a party and in search of sage advice on which impressive wines to dazzle your guests with? Listed below are fantastic highlights from our list, selected for their wonderful expressions of both variety and […]
What Makes a Wine Vegan?
Back to Guides & Advice MOKE’S NOTES Ever wondered what makes a wine vegan or vegetarian? As more and more people adopt a vegan diet, we are increasingly asked: what makes a wine vegan? Or vegetarian? Surely, they all are? The answer lies in the production techniques. Fining is a process used for the clarification […]
