How to recognise if your wine has gone bad
So, you know whether to dump it, or drink it. Oxidation Look out for an orange or red-brown colour, with vinegar and sour notes in white wines or lack of aroma and flavour in red wines. It’s happened to the best of us: you want…
Revel with Rhône Valley wines
Southern France’s Rhône Valley is known the world over for its high-quality red, white, and rosé wines. Established during the last Ice Age, the unique landscape that makes up the highly regarded region was formed when the Rhône Glacier carved its way south through France…
Best of Burgundy
From cellars in the oldest caves in Beaune, the wines of Joseph Drouhin are found on the finest tables. For the last 140 years, Maison Joseph Drouhin has been in the hands of the Drouhin family with the fourth generation at the helm today. With…
How a Riedel glass can change your wine life
Design of stemware Wine glassware consists of three parts: the bowl, the stem and the base. A stemmed glass must be designed to ensure that the size, height and width are in perfect balance. The size of the bowl has to be in proportion to…
Raising a glass to the Cazes dynasty
JM Cazes – one of the most renowned names in Bordeaux. The Cazes family is inextricably linked to Bordeaux, France, with a wine-business dynasty stretching back four generations. Originally from Ariège, in southwest France, the Cazes family moved to Médoc in 1875. Starting as a…
Pairing spicy Malaysian dishes with wine
It can be difficult to pair wine with the spicy and intensely aromatic food of Malaysia, but it can be done. Here’s a guide on some of our country’s mouth-watering specialities that add so much spice to our life, and their recommended pairing. Food with…
Popular Malaysian food with wine
The typical red/meat and white/fish rule does not work with Malaysian food due to the varying condiments used in local dishes. For instance, sambal can easily overpower a wine. So, the trick is to choose a wine to work with the strong flavours present in…
Keeping wine and food pairing simple
Continuing our series on all things wine. Matching food and wine is not rocket science – you don’t have to learn complicated systems for choosing the right bottle to enhance what you’re eating. A few simple guidelines will help you create winning wine-and-food pairings. Play…
Diving to the winery under the sea
The world’s first underwater winery nestles within a shipwreck beneath the Adriatic. If you love wine and diving, you will probably take the first flight out to Croatia if not for the lockdown and Covid-19 pandemic travel restrictions. But it’s not too late when travel…
No-brainer wine-and-food pairing menu
When paired correctly, wine only enhances the flavours of food. We’ve got 10 wines – with five of them currently on sale – which you can easily pair with popular foods. RED Cabernet Sauvignon with red meat Cabernet Sauvignon has a complex flavour with many…
