Sulphite free wines and low sulphur wines have seen a sharp increase in demand globally over the last 12 months. As more and more people are educating themselves through the internet, they’re discovering that they are not alone in experiencing unpleasant symptoms when consuming various alcoholic drinks which are pumped full of chemicals - sulphur in [...]

The sulphite free wine movement is gaining more and more momentum globally these days as the consumer is beginning to realise the health benefits of drinking well made healthy wines. There are up to 80 different chemicals permitted to be added to your wine, many of which can have negative effects on your health. Sulphites [...]

Our congratulations go out to Harold and Denise, and all the team at Zevenwacht as their limited production (6000 bottles), single vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 360 has just achieved John Platter’s highest award of 5 Stars in the latest edition of his world famous South African wine guide. This is a first for Zevenwacht although they’ve come tantalisingly [...]

With the Chancellor’s spending review, we’re now left waiting to see how it will affect us in real terms. It’s difficult to digest and understand the longer term implications of billions of pounds in cuts, but there will be countless knock on effects for us all, some of which are already happening.  For example, although these cuts show [...]

With the myriad of price increases we’ve all experienced since the beginning of the recession, one increase which  has been hard to get to grips with, is the price of wine. This is because the industry has been hit from all sides at once. Obviously there is the string of excise duty increases put into [...]

Sulphite free wine, which is also organic and biodynamic, is now available in the UK through the UK’s leading specialist low sulphite wine merchant, www.goodwineonline.co.uk. Firstly, just to explain the technical definitions, ‘sulphite free wine’ is a layman’s term, which should be more accurately called ‘no added sulphur wine’ or ‘no added preservative wine’, purely because tiny amounts of bound [...]

Organic wine, sulphite free wine, preservative free wine, biodynamic wine, low sulphur wine, no added preservative wine – is it any wonder that people are confused!? Perhaps the biggest misunderstanding is that people (wrongly) assume that organic wine is low in sulphites – it is not. Sulphites are a natural compound of sulphur and oxygen, [...]

Organic and biodynamic wines are experiencing a comeback as more and more people are looking to cut out additives in food, and in life in general. When organic wines first hit the headlines in the late 1990′s they had an image of being made in a shed by a man with a beard, woolly socks [...]

NAP or No Added Preservative wines, and low sulphite wines are a hot topic at the moment. Unfortunately the more they’re discussed the more confusion seems to be created. Off License News has just published an article on the subject of sulphites in wine and it’s clear that whoever wrote it doesn’t understand the first thing [...]

We all love a glass of good wine but I also enjoy a decent beer from time to time. Not the mass produced, highly preserved artificial stuff, but good traditional beer made in a brewery by a man, not just machines. Hard work, sweat and toil to craft a delicious cooling foamy brew that gets [...]