The Wine Blokes

Information on the wine regions of the world.

Over at the UK Wine Shop we’ve been getting a large amount of visitors searching for Rioja, in particular the Baron de Barbon Oak-Aged Rioja 2006 .  Of all the wine regions Rioja in Spain and Malbourough in New Zealand seem to continue to appeal to the senses of the mass wine consuming public.  Why [...]

I was driving through the hills today taking a peek at many vineyards.  South Australia has experienced its driest September & October since 1914, with average rainfall significantly down. This will consequently prove bitter sweet for many growers as the season progresses.
Around this time of year, the vines are approaching full canopy, as can be [...]

Grüner Veltliner

Grüner Veltliner

Species:
Vitis vinifera

Also called:
Grüner Muskateller, Veltliner

Origin:
Austria

Notable regions:
Lower Austria, Burgenland, Moravia, Czech Republic

Notable wines:
Smaragds from Wachau

Grüner Veltliner is a variety of white wine grape widely grown primarily in Austria and widely also in the Czech Republic, but almost nowhere else. It has a reputation of being a particularly food-friendly wine.
It is made into wines of [...]

Brunello di Montalcino is a red Italian wine produced in the vineyards surrounding the town of Montalcino located about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Florence in the Tuscany wine region. Brunello, roughly translated as “nice dark one” in the local dialect, is the unofficial name of the clone of Sangiovese grown in the Montalcino region. In [...]

There is alot of talk at the moment about the massive growth of the wine industry of China (along with massive growth of everything else). The Indian Wine Industry however has quite a long and colourful history, from the time grapevines were imported from Persia, to British colonialisation, to prohibition of alcohol. But over the [...]

India

Indian wine is wine made in the Asian country of India. Viticulture in India has a long history dating back to the time of the Indus Valley civilization when grapevines were believed to have been introduced from Persia. Winemaking has existed throughout most of India’s history but was particularly encouraged during the time of the [...]

The Israeli wine industry has wineries numbering in the hundreds and ranging in size from small boutique enterprises making a few thousand bottles per year to the largest producing over ten million bottles per year.

 
Wine in Ancient Israel
Wine has been produced in the Land of Israel since Biblical times. The ancient land of Israel (known [...]

We had some friends over for dinner the other night and and we tasted some nice Australian wines from the Adelaide Hills, but everyone has tasted them before and someone asked me if I had something a little unique or different in the cellar. I rember tasting some weird and wonderful wines from the Cornas [...]

Vineyards in the Dry Creek Valley AVA in central Sonoma County

Appellation type
U.S. County

Year established
1850

Country
USA

Part of
California, North Coast AVA

Sub-regions
Alexander Valley AVA, Bennett Valley AVA,Chalk Hill AVA, Dry Creek Valley AVA, Green Valley of Russian River Valley AVA, Knights Valley AVA, Los Carneros AVA, Northern Sonoma AVA, Rockpile AVA, Russian [...]

 
Slovenian wine is wine from the Central European country of Slovenia. Viticulture and winemaking has existed in this region since the time of the Celts and Illyrians tribes, long before the Romans would introduce winemaking to the lands of France, Spain and Germany. Today Slovenia has more than 40,000 wineries making 1 million hl (26.4 [...]