Wine

Not having owned a television for more than 20 years, I have never watched Frasier, which was a 1990s American sitcom. But it came to my attention that Petrus 1945 is featured in the Frasier episode “Something Borrowed, Someone Blue”, broadcast in May 2000. The bottle is presented to Frasier Crane by his father. Frasier gasps and says. “My God, Dad!  This is…

Founded and owned by my good Warwickshire-based friends Tim and Vaughan Pearson, Seven Springs Vineyards is situated on the R320 Hemel en Aarde Valley road, between the seaside town of Hermanus and the spa town of Caledon, in the picturesque Western Cape of South Africa. I went there in 2003 and it is a beautiful part of...

Baily’s Hunting Directory is delighted to welcome Arden Fine Wines as its new wine partner. Arden Fine Wines is the Mayfair-based specialist in mature fine and rare wines and spirits. Arden was founded by Stuart George in 2019 to enable fine and rare wines to be enjoyed by private and corporate clients. Stuart began his...

A customer recently contacted us at Bordeaux-Undiscovered after receiving his Claret and Cheese Gift Box querying that there was no mention of Claret on any of the bottle labels. The wines were Clarets so why don’t the French label them that? The reason is a simple one. Claret is the British name for Bordeaux Red...