Distinctive wines from small producers
We are keen to bring wines from smaller producers to a wider audience and so here is where we’ll share news of our discoveries, let you know about our Tastings and other Events and give you information which will help you get even more pleasure from wine.
English wine is booming – we are at last discovering the quality of wines from our shores. The month of May is medal-awards time for the wine industry, and the highly influential Decanter Magazine and International Wine Challenge competitions in 2016 gave their highest ever number of golds, silvers and bronzes to English wines. Many of the winning wines are from the outstanding 2014 vintage, when a long, warm autumn ripened to perfection the … Read More
UK Wine of the Year Trophy winner comes to Tuppenny Barn English Wine Week runs from 28 May to 5 June 2016. It is a great time to discover more about English wine which is rapidly growing in popularity. Most of the wine is produced in the South East, in particular in Sussex, Hampshire and Kent. Over 450 vineyards are making around 3.15 million bottles a year, some of which are exported for wine-drinkers … Read More
We were thrilled that Bodegas Gordonzello’s Peregrino Rosado 2014 won the “Best Rosado” in Wines from Spain Awards this year. We also entered Peregrino Albarín 2014 and this wine was also selected in the Top 100 wines. We are the only importer of these wines in the UK. 600 wines were “blind” tasted by expert panels, including several Masters of Wine, chaired by Tim Atkin MW. The panels selected the Top 100 wines. The … Read More