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How can you tell when wine is of good quality?
Quality is an objective matter and as such should be measurable and explainable, yet in practice it is extremely difficult to separate quality from subjective taste and is crucial to taking your wine appreciation to the next level.
Buying premium quality wine when it's still in the barrel is so much easier than you think. Every April, the 'Place de Bordeaux' releases the latest vintage of wines to selected wine merchants (negociants) when they are still maturing in the barrel. Vintage'82 has a very close relationship with these selected wine merchants who give us first priority in securing your case/s of wine.
Wine importers are constantly bombarded by wine producers looking for established businesses to import their wines. So how do we choose which wines we want to represent?
Bordeaux is a magical place. A melting pot of some of the finest food and wine in the world. Andrew Azzopardi recalls his last trip to Bordeaux. The chats with the passionate winemakers about climate change, sustainability and the quality of wine today. All whilst enjoying a lovely home-cooked meal.
I am a firm believer that decanting wine can indeed improve the wine-experience. Decanting wine is simply the ‘art’ of slowly pouring wine from one vessel into another.
