Monthly Archives: March 2008


So here I go, how long can I survive on just Big Brand Wine? I’m aiming to pour myself a glass of two different wines each night I’m at home. And yes, it is just me – Jill will be drinking whatever she likes. Tonight she’s on Mud House 2007 […]

Day One in the Big Bottle House…


OK, the Top 10 UK wine brands – here’s how they currently stand:- Rank Brand Owner 1 Hardys Constellation 2 Gallo E & J Gallo 3 Blossom Hill Percy Fox 4 Jacob’s Creek Pernod Ricard 5 Stowells Constellation 6 Wolf Blass Fosters EMEA 7 Lindemans Fosters EMEA 8 Banrock Station […]

The Winal Countdown


An e-mail from David Williams, editor of Wine & Spirit, that thwopped into my In-Box earlier this year began thus. “We’re dong [sic] a ‘big issue’ in May, a kind of sister issue to our small producers number, focusing on the world’s biggest producers.” Since getting married a couple of […]

The things we do for love….OK, money