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Huge thanks to @malat.weingut.hotel who sent the whole @castelnauuk team a #crazycreatures face mask all the way from Austria. Keeping us all safe with a crazy mask for these crazy times. Now where’s that bottle of GrunerV? #staysafe #winemask #austrianwine #wine #grünerveltliner #crazycreatures #style
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🍷NEW WINE ALERT🍷 * Trail 3150 Proprietary Red Blend 2016 * It's finally arrived, one of the most anticipated wines added to our portfolio for some time has docked and is now in the warehouse! Why are we so excited about it? Producing just one wine Trail 3150 is the very definition of a micro winery. It's an 8-acre single vineyard in the Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley. 3150 Silverado Trail is the address of the property, hence the name. The wine itself is a rich and sumptuous blend of Cabernet, Merlot and Malbec with lashings of ripe black and blue fruit, spicy oak and velvety tannins. Still fresh on the palate, full, rounded, long and memorable. Extremely limited availability, only 200 cases produced! #wine #napavalley #california #californiawine #wineimporter #cabernet #merlot #malbec #monochrome
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The market research has started for our new rosé Prosecco. We’ve been asking questions about the colour, the price, the bottle shape and the all important taste. With a new category like this it’s an exciting time in the development of the wine. If all goes to plan some Rosé Prosecco could be in the UK as early as November. All Rosé Prosecco will be a blend of Glera (the white Prosecco grape) and Pinot Noir for colour. It will require a minimum fermentation period of 60 days and must be made from a single vintage. The first vintage to be released will be 2019. The initial samples we’ve tried from @casa_vinicola_caldirola are pretty good and this consumer group thought so too! #rosé #Prosecco #newwine #comingsoon #marketresearch #wine #productdevelopment
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Who knew we could get so excited about chairs?! @thenoisylobster are getting ready for their reopening this weekend with brand new upper-deck terrace fit for 60 people. The sun will be out and the bubbles will be flowing. If ever there was a reason to embrace the staycation this is it! And wow, that view!! #champagne #wine #staycation #terrace #christchurch #chairs
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Well that was fun!! Thank you to @vinum.fine.wines @tanninandoak @thetastinghouse @platform.wines @flagshipwines for sparing your time to taste through @hahnwines with us and one of Hahn’s incredibly insightful winemakers: Juan José Verdina. Thank you to @californiawinesuk too for coming up with the concept. To our friends in the USA enjoy your long weekend. Happy #independenceday2020 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🍷🍷 #wine #hahn #monterey #slh #santaluciahighlands #chardonnay #pinotnoir
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In case you missed the premiere last night on YouTube here’s just one of the many sound bites from the legendary Joe @drinkscoachuk’s episode “Three Champagnes I really like.” If you haven’t already then do hop on over to see the full episode where he reviews @champagnecastelnau, @charlesheidsieckchampagne and @taittinger_uk All proceeds from his channel are going to @drinks_trust COVID-19 fund, please support if you can. Love you Joe, keep it up!! #champagne #winereviews #supportyourtrade
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When tasting notes are written well they really can make you thirsty! Here is one such example. Thank you @decanter for Highly Recommending our best selling Rosé! #wine #provencerosé #coteauxdaixenprovence #rosé #Fleuri #Barbebelle #90points #highlyrecommended
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19 Best Buy gongs for @adamwinemetal’s @cyclesgladiatorwine from @wineenthusiast since it’s inception. His Chardonnay 2018 is the latest one 👏 👏 👏 #wine #californiawine #wineenthusiast #chardonnay #90points #2018vintage #winehooligans
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Save the date: . Thursday 2nd July, 4pm GMT. . We’re hosting a zoom masterclass in association with @californiawinesuk and @hahnwines. The subject: . “Pinot Noir and Chardonnay: what makes Monterey and Santa Lucia Highlands special?” . With insight from @hahnwines winemaker Juan José Verdina and our general manager Keith Isaac MW plus a panel of special guests including @flagshipwines @platform.wines @tanninandoak @thetastinghouse @vinum.fine.wines. . You can tune in too to learn more about these world class wine making regions. Just DM us to receive the link. Limited spaces. Hope you can join us. #winetasting #masterclass #monterey #santaluciahighlands #AVA #alwayslearning #winemakers #masterofwine #pinotnoir #chardonnay
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Flashback Friday! We’ve been digging through the depths of our server and found some real gems from over the years. . This is Keith with Steven Spurrier in 2010 at the @decanterawards collecting the Trophy for Best Argentine Red Under £10 on behalf of @bodegavalledelapuerta. The wine that won was a Bonarda but that’s not the most surprising thing about this photo. What’s more astonishing is how Keith appears to have not really changed at all in 10 years! . Must be the wine 🍷 . #wine #resveratrol #flashbackfriday #bonarda #argentinewine #awards #Trophy 🏆
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It’s National Rosé Day on Saturday 13th June which is great timing because that’s also when the sun is due to return to us here in the UK! . Our best selling rosé is the iconic @chateau_barbebelle Rosé Fleuri which pictures an illustrated ‘beautiful beard’ or Barbebelle in French. . @chateau_barbebelle’s wines are appellation Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence, they farm sustainably and are certified ‘Agriculture raisonnée’ . What rosé will you be drinking this rosé day?? . #roséday #barbebelle #beautifulbeard #wine #rosé #fleuri #frenchwine #sustainableliving #sustainablefarming #aixenprovence
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Did we ever tell you about this?! . 🌟 @sutilwines Acrux 2015 🌟was awarded 93/100 in @decanter’s April issue cover feature on top Bordeaux blends from around the world . #bordeauxblend #redwine #wine #chileanwine #colchaguavalley #iconwines #chile #sutil
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🍷 Discovery starts here🍷 Oak Valley is more than a vineyard and a winery. It’s a vast estate in cool climate Elgin Valley in South Africa that farms apples and pears, fresh cut flowers, cattle and free range acorn fed pigs and is home to 30km of mountain biking trails. They are also the producers of beautiful, energising and emotive videos. We love this one. #disoverystartshere #wine #southafricanwine #elginvalley #mountainbiking #disoveroakvalley #mtb
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🌟 Double gold 🌟 Two of our fine wines from California have struck gold at The Global Pinot Noir Masters 2020. Congrats to @hahnwines and @jamiesonranch! #wine #wineawards #gold #goldmedals #pinotnoir #Reata #Hahn #SLH #Monterey #sonomacounty #sanbenitocounty #california #californiawine
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This is the future of wine deliveries! Our Sales Director @hindhead_vintner mucking in to responsibly get deliveries out to customers 👍🏼 😷 🍷 . #spreadthewinenotthevirus #wine #winedelivery #allhandsondeck #staysafe
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As New Zealand prepares to relax their Covid-19 alert level down to 2 we hear from @tikiwines founding partner Sue McKean on how the 2020 harvest is looking and what things have been like for them during lockdown. "We feel very grateful that we were able to complete our 2020 harvest during lockdown and we are extremely pleased with the quality of the vintage. The long dry summer and settled conditions through harvest means 2020 is looking to be one of the best we have seen for a while across Hawkes Bay, Marlborough and North Canterbury. There will be some stunning wines out of this vintage. . With social distancing and Covid-19 protocols everything at work is taking longer to action, whether it's harvest, receiving parts for our bottling line out of Italy, or a local courier delivery. Saying that everyone here has been mucking in to come up with solutions and keep everything rolling as well as possible. These measures have paid off and we feel immensely proud of the countywide efforts that Kiwis have put in to get to where we are now with the pandemic case numbers and infection rates here. . The photo is of our Waiata vineyard in North Canterbury where the cycle of vintages continues in earnest with lambs coming into the vineyard for winter grazing later this week and pruning kicking off the week after. The weather is very settled and abnormally warm which brings us all some joy at an otherwise unsettling time." #wineryupdate #newzealand #newzealandwine #harvest2020 #wine #lockdownlowdown
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It’s hard to sift through the bad news and find the good. We got some good news: @champagnecastelnau Rosé NV won GOLD🥇 at the @sommelierwineawards 2020. Enough said. #winecompetition #wineaward #GOLD #champagne #rosé #2020awards #ontrade #sommelier
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Right now, when a winery goes silent the natural reaction is to panic which is what we did when hadn't heard from our friends at @malat.weingut.hotel in a while. . Then we received the most uplifting and energetic email from @malatmichael and it became clear the shear scale of work being achieved was the only barrier to their comms. . Michael has embraced the virtual world of wine tasting and the time that less travel gives to dedicate to new projects in the vineyards like planting new parcels. He has updated his marketing materials, the design of his outer cases and brochures. And if you were starting to get anxious about your street cred when we emerge from lockdown then he has even devised the solution in the form of beautiful branded face masks! . The ultimate positive to come out of this pandemic has to be the opportunity to spend much more time with family which @malatmichael has also been enjoying including celebrating a significant birthday with his gorgeous children. So, if you have been looking for inspiration to get you going on this sunny Monday, for us this is it. Let’s get to work! #happybirthdaymichael #keepingspiritsup #inspiration #workethic #newprojects #austria #austrianwine #lockdownlowdown #malat #wineryupdate #wineimporter #wine
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It’s Sauvignon Blanc Day so we scheduled a zoom to check in with our favourites. Some going a little more stir crazy than others... . Happy #sauvblancday from all our savvy’s @tikiwines @sutilwines @domainerochette @domainebaillyreverdy @oakvalleywines . #nzwine #sauvblancday #sauvignonblanc #wine #marlborough #chileanwine #sancerre #touraine #touraineloirevalley #southafricanwine #elgin
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From California with love today where we learnt how things have been for our friends at @hahnwines in the Santa Lucia Highlands. With wine production and distribution classed as essential Hahn has remained open for wholesale business from wine growing through to bottling and shipping. Like us all, the safety of their employees has been paramount, they quickly established guidelines and policies and ordered supplies to protect their team and keep the engines running. . Work has been restructured; they closed both the Soledad and Carmel tasting rooms and their wines are now available for purchase online. Tasting room staff and others whose regular roles have been paused have embraced the call for 'all hands on deck' and are being cross trained to work in other areas of the business thereby keeping staff employed and allowing for focus and attention to be distributed to where it is needed most. . Their attitude to realigning their team in a manor that not only helps to sustain their business but the future of their employees is inspiring and the significance of their SIP board announcing Sustainability in Practice could not be more poignant or more accurate than it is right now. #wine #wineryupdate #lockdownlowdown #california #winesofcalifornia #santaluciahighlands #sustainablebusiness #sustainabilityinpractice #SIP #wineimporter
