An evening with Daenerys! This winter it has been ferociously wet and windy outside and I am cold! A feeling that most of us have in the UK between 1850 and 2016…. Oh! well ok… maybe just October to March each year…. So what do you do?         Better still, what do you drink? This winter Harry finally decided to bow to popular opinion (he’d ignored mine) and catch up with Game of Thrones. So we found ourselves more often than not getting in early from work, far too early for ‘She’ and therefore a fire was lit and we...

Chilean Wine Trip 2015   Ok, so it isn’t straightforward flying to Chile, there are no direct flights from the UK, so in the end we chose an evening hop over to Madrid followed by a fantastic Albarino (Mar de Frades, in a stylish blue bottle – will get some in!) in the Iberia club lounge and then the overnight flight arriving in Santiago around 9ish in the morning… Santiago was hot and dry and exciting, from the Central Fish Market and restaurant with its bite-size empanada’s and cold beer to enliven us through to a visit to La Piojera,...

One of the joys of wine is that sense of place and time they can give you. Either through travel, food or even a local Italian restaurant wines often typify the culture and people that have created them. French wines often have a certain restrained grace about them, which makes them very good for food, so we remember them with friends and social events. Spanish and Italian wines often have that hot-blooded and vivid style of sun and sea, often encountered first on holidays, Spanish wines always remind me of hot summers, and Italian hearty Tuscan meals. Australian wines, well.....

At last we are here! Harry and I welcome you to our little corner of wine appreciation that is The Red Bottle Company Ltd. It has been a while in the making, but all good things come to he who waits... The Red Bottle Wine Company offers some exciting opportunities to purchase some lovely and well-priced wines from around the world. Hopefully the web-site is self-explanatory so take your time to look around ‘The Cellar’, ‘The Vine Boxes’ and our latest offers in ‘Moments in Wine’. If you have found this page via another method and have not yet visited...