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A Wine tutor retires – Eastern Daily Press. May 2010
It was the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw who wrote “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches” in his 1903 play...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course. Part 1 – The History of Wine
The History of Wine. “The History of Wine cannot be separated from the history of humanity. Wine, fruit of the vine...
The EDP Wine Course part 2 – Bordeaux
Bordeaux is the largest and most famous fine wine region in the world. Bordeaux, is situated in south west...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course part 3 – Burgundy
Introduction Burgundy, named Bourgogne in French, is Bordeaux’s eastern partner in the global world of fine wines....
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course part 4 – Rhône
The Rhône provides similarities with the Loire Valley rather than Bordeaux or Burgundy, in that it produces many wine...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course part 5 – Alsace & Loire
Alsace A long thin area running roughly North to South in North East France, separated from Germany by the River Rhine...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course part 6 – Italy
Italy probably produces wines with a greater pendulum swing than any other wine producing country in the world, from...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course part 7 – Fortified wines
Of the world’s fortified wines Port and Sherry are its principal ambassadors A fortified wine is one to which Brandy...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course part 8 – Germany
Germany’s wine industry has been a game of two halves. Their production and export of wines to Britain (formerly their...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course part 9 – Australia
Australia has influenced the drinking habits of the post-war generation more than any other wine making country in the...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course part 10 – Champagne
Champagne is know the world over for its production of delightful and expensive sparkling wines so often earmarked for...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course Part 11 – New Zealand
So crucially are we now aware that geography and climate have an essential bearing on grape varieties and therefore...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course part 12 – North America
North America Producing 3 times the amount of wine than Australia, America is a force to be increasingly reckoned with...
The Eastern Daily Press Wine Course Part 13 – South Africa
South Africa has been making wine for over 350 years, longer in fact than either America or Australia, thereby...