The Design of Wine
Peter Mitchell MW onThe following is an extract from our Spring fanzine, now available in stores. With the theme of this fanzine centering on design, it had me thinking about wine labels. Whilst the contents of the bottle …
Continue readingMeet the Producer: Castello dei Rampolla
Ben Pearson onIt’s a rare, and slightly self-indulgent , pleasure to watch the world slowly discover something beautiful you have known about and kept close for a long time; to be in the swell of a wave …
Continue readingTides Are Turning on the Restaurant Industry
Peter Mitchell MW onFor two decades the growth in the restaurant sector has been significant, with changes in the way people treat eating out underpinning this. The real winners over this period have been the big chains, with …
Continue readingChanging Names: Introducing Jeroboams Trade
Ben Pearson onI have now been working in the UK wine trade for twenty years and for the last fourteen of those I have worked for ‘Laytons Wine Merchants’. On the 1st of March 2018, myself and …
Continue readingThe Thing With Gin: Unpacking the Gin Boom
James Phillips onGin is suddenly everywhere: we now have gin shops, gin bars, and even gin hotels. Britian has gone gin mad, leading to a huge boom in production and consumption of this historic white spirit. The …
Continue readingMeet the Producer: Pierro
Peter Mitchell MW onPierro was planted in 1980 by Dr Mike Peterkin, a Roseworthy graduate who was at the time making wine for the Cullens (it was whilst there that he was the first in Australia to make …
Continue readingJeroboams Win Small Chain of the Year at Drinks Retailing Awards 2018
Ben Pearson onWe are pleased to announce that Jeroboams have walked home winners of the Small Chain of the Year category at the Drinks Retailing Awards 2018! The DRAs are the drinks trade’s biggest annual highlight, bringing …
Continue readingIndependent Wine Retailers March On
Hugh Sturges onGiven that the UK is looking at economic challenges, that millennials are rumoured not to drink nearly as much as us baby boomers, that Sterling weakness and widespread climactic problems are pushing up prices, that …
Continue readingDear Matt…Ease My January Blues!
Ben Pearson onIn the latest edition of our regular feature “Dear Matt,” our very own Agony Uncle – aka Matt Tipping, Jeroboams’ Commercial Director – answers all your wine related questions. “Dear Matt, I have spent all month …
Continue readingMeet the Producer: Ortega Ezquerro
Ben Pearson onThe story of Ortega Ezquerro begins with Quintín Ortega, who planted the family’s first vines back in the year 1896. At that stage, their founding father was a humble barrel-maker with ambitions, who as well …
Continue readingBurgundy 2016: We Need to Talk About Frost
Martin Tickle onIf the British love to talk about the weather, the Burgundians will fervently hope that they never need speak of it again in such terms as the 2016 vintage in Burgundy. There is nothing so …
Continue readingTalking Organic & Biodynamic
Peter Mitchell MW onUntil 2012, no EU rules or definition existed for Organic Wine, meaning only grapes could be certified organic and wine could only be labelled as ‘made from organic grapes’. Although wine was frequently sold as …
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