• February 2012
  17

  Renaissance in Recession

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  In all recessions there are winners and losers: whether individuals or businesses, history shows that there are always people who can find opportunities in a downturn. As Italy has shown in the last year, wine is no different.  The country’s rise up the Off-Trade market share rankings was nothing short of phenomenal during 2011.  The [...]

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  Tags: Australia, Chardonnay, Italy, New World, New Zealand, Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, trends

  Categories:Food & wine,News,Trends

• January 2012
  26

  Viña Montes – Worthy of Note

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  As wine consumers from a wine trade perspective, we almost always note the name of the winery, the varietal and – if we wake up inspired on that particular day – the vintage – but what makes a winery stand up and be counted and makes us remember them for the wine and the brand? [...]

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  Tags: MONTES, music & wine, New World

  Categories:Travel,Wines

• January 2012
  13

  Grape expectations – Blason goes gourmet

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  Blason de Bourgogne’s food & wine pairing event for the lovely consumer journos at National Magazines was a real success!  Wines showed really well, amazing canapés from the talented Susan Hansen at the Joy of Taste and a huge thanks to our fantastic host Joanna Simon from The Wine Gang  and food editor of  House & Garden Read [...]

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  Tags: Blason

  Categories:Food & wine,Tastings

• December 2011
  22

  Save The Date!

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  We may have been a little quiet on the blog front of late, but we’ve been  busy behind the scenes researching venues and ideas for the launch of our first ever portfolio tastings for trade, taking place in February 2012, to showcase our shiny new collection for on-trade and speciality retail. Here are the dates, please stick them in your brand new 2012 [...]

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  Tags: portfolio tastings

  Categories:Innovation,New wines,News,Tastings

• December 2011
  22

  Need some last minute festive drinks inspiration?

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  Check out this great Christmas drinks feature in The Mirror featuring (almost) exclusively wines from PLB’s fantastic wineries around the globe… click here to view. Finally, don’t forget the cheese footballs and the foie gras… Happy Xmas, Bonnes fêtes, Feliz Navidad and Buon Natale…

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  Tags: Festive drinking, Food & Wine, New World, Old World

  Categories:Press recommendations,Wines of the Week

• November 2011
  17

  We celebrated big! IWSC 2011

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  We were definitely celebrating our wineries successes last night at The Guildhall, with a nice table decoration of trophies by the end of the banquet (and a lot of empty wine glasses).  Good on Spier who stole the show, first winning varietal trophies for the Savanha Naledi Pinotage 2009-  ’The Perold Trophy for Pinotage’ and for the outstanding Private Collection Chardonnay [...]

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  Tags: IWSC, Spier, Union des Viticulteurs de Chablis, Waitrose

  Categories:Awards,News,PLB Team News,Wines

• November 2011
  16

  Gorgonzola & Gewurz – great match

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  Star wine of the Majestic Twickenham Winter Tasting last night:  Yali Gewurztraminer 2010, Colchagua Valley, Chile http://www.majestic.co.uk/find/category-is-Wine/category-is-Chile/product-is-39269 Went down a treat with the Vallebona Gorgonzola!  

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  Tags: Gewurztraminer, wine and cheese matches

  Categories:Food & wine,Tastings,Wines

• November 2011
  10

  Interesting times

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  We decided it was time to give our website a re-vamp and get started with a regular blog post, which has prompted some reflection on where we’ve come from and where we’re going next!  When PLB started out in the wine business in 1982 (30 years next May, we’re already planning the party!) the world [...]

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  Tags: Australia, China, Italy, Merlot, New World, Old World, Pinot Grigio, PLB, Shiraz, Spain, USA

  Categories:News,PLB Team News,Trends,Wines