by Richard Moyse | Aug 21, 2024 | News
After a growing season of marked climatic contrasts, Chile’s 2024 harvest has been declared as excellent. This year’s harvest has been unusually long in Chile, spanning as many as four months, due to opposing conditions in the far north of the country, compared to the...
by Richard Moyse | Apr 18, 2024 | News
Thanks to its rediscovery, the long misunderstood grape variety has slowly carved a path to success. If Carmenère were a saying, it would without a doubt be “everything comes to those who wait”. This black grape variety has been around for centuries, and yet it has...
by Richard Moyse | Nov 27, 2023 | Events, News, Wines
With an ever increasing range of grape varieties available in the UK why not arrange a promotion/event around a single grape variety, Please see below a range of grape celebration days. All of these varieties are available from The Global Winery. 16 February –...
by Richard Moyse | Apr 17, 2023 | News
People of a certain age will not look at let alone purchase Chardonnay. Big oaky Chardonnays are the oft-forgotten part of nineties pop culture. Most folk will never have heard of someone, at a bar saying ‘ABC’ anything but Chardonnay. Chardonnay never really went...
by Richard Moyse | Mar 13, 2023 | News
Last week, at a Vinexpo Paris press briefing in London, it was revealed what younger consumers want from wine, and why they are drinking less, but spending more than their parents’ generation. The number of people under the age of 40 who drink wine at least once a...
by Richard Moyse | Dec 5, 2022 | News
One of the world’s current most stylish and popular grape varieties. Aromatic, full of flavour and best drunk young and fresh. First referenced in the Loire Valley in France in 1534. Then disappeared until the late eighteenth century. The name derives from the French...
by Richard Moyse | Nov 21, 2022 | News
Planting new vines of Chile’s oldest variety. País, aka Listán Prieto, is the oldest vine not only in Chile, but in the Americas. One of the first Vitis vinifera varieties to be brought by the Spanish, it spread across the continents of North and South America...
by Richard Moyse | Nov 15, 2022 | News
Producers in the South American country are getting giddy over compost, and with good reason. With climate change transforming Chile’s wine regions, sustainability is the hot word on everyone’s lips. From bountiful biological corridors and biodynamic soils to...
by Richard Moyse | Aug 22, 2022 | News
It’s Pinot Noir day on 18 August and time to celebrate one of the worlds most popular wine...
