Barrels & Bottles Wine Blog

Having had a couple of your standard pints in my old local with my father, we returned to my parents house and had a nice crisp dry bottle of Konig Pils, to settle our way onto the Christmas wines, we drank a steely Chardonnay from the Highfield Estate, followed by the lighter body of a Fleurie La Chapelle des Bois.

After a rest from food and drink we finished the meal with the Gartelmann Ambrosia from the Hunter Valley, for me this stood up beautifully to the pudding, toasts of marmalade and apricots made it a sumptuous drink for me, but a bit too much for the rest of the family!

Mark Price is National Accounts Manager for Barrels & Bottles

Labels: beaujolais, christmas, highfield, wine

The official opening date for the Beaujolais harvest has been set for August 25th - 11 days earlier than last year, owing to the early blooming. Around 47,000 harvesters of 117 nationalities are expected to descend on the 3,000 estates of the region, where manual harvesting is still compulsory.

Fully story by Herve Lalau here...

Labels: beaujolais, wine