Wine, food, cooking and accessories

Award-winning English vineyards will soon be producing a record amount of sparkling wine – to rival the finest French champagne. More of the grapes used to make traditional champagne in France are now being grown in the UK than ever before. And with vineyards on the south coast of England just a couple of hundred [...]

South African wine companies might not return to Vinexpo or the London International Wine Fair in future years due to the fact they believe ProWein in Germany is a more effective show from the perspective of firms looking to do business in Northern Europe, according to Kleine Zalze managing director Kobus Basson. Full story …

Coghlans were invited to contribute to a star studded evening to celebrate the 80th Birthday of Virginia McKenna, founder patron of the Born Free Foundation at the Savoy in London on Friday 17th June 2011. The list of celebrity guests attending read like a whos who of entertainment Celebs attending the event included Joanna Lumley, [...]

Work in progress on Virginia’s cake: Janet & Simon proudly display the finished cake at the Savoy: Pride of place on stage with Virginia; The Coghlans team who made the birthday cake (Andrew & Janet Coghlan with Simon Lilley) The birthday cake take stage left at the Savoy Hotel, London

Official press release by Miele : Miele, the German premium domestic appliance manufacturer, today announces the launch of Coghlans Cookery School brought to you by Miele. The partnership is the first of its kind for Miele in the UK, and is the inaugural venue in a planned network of cookery school alliances for the brand [...]

Coghlans Cookery School brought to you by Miele launched officially this week with a huge opening ceremony at the newly refurbished Chesterfield site. Directors of Miele and Coghlans have joined forces to refit the school with state of the art Miele equipment throughout including combi pressure steamers, moisture plus ovens and retractable extraction from the [...]

Its not very often that a business in the North of England receives an invitation to guest at the Savoy Hotel in London but for Coghlans Cookery School of Sheepbridge Chesterfield, they are preparing for one of the biggest nights of their culinary lives when they prepare the dessert and Chocolate Birthday cake for Virginia [...]

According to the European Commission in 2010 Italy produced 4.96 billion litres of wine compared to 4.62 billion in France, a drop of one per cent from last year. Domenico Bosco, from the Italian agricultural workers union Coldiretti, said:”This result is fruit of the fact that production has been stable in Italy while in France [...]

An unusual combination of high must density and high acidity has produced very concentrated wines with great ageing potential; a sharp contrast with the soft, youthful appeal of 2009. Speaking to the drinks business at a tasting of German 2010s held in London yesterday by Justerini & Brooks, Saar winemaker Hanno Zilliken characterised 2010 as [...]

Coghlans Cookery School Brought to you by Miele To launch our brand new Miele Cookery School we are hosting an open day on Friday 10th June from 12.00 noon -7.00pm Our cookery school has had a complete re fit by our main sponsors, Miele and we would like to take the opportunity to show you [...]