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Provenance is the key to the multisensory experience of wine, and at Atlas Swift we aim to make this palpable with a horizontal tasting of five Chardonnays from different regions.Each wine...

Musty aromas and corked wine The major compound responsible for musty taints from cork is 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA). This is formed in cork bark by the chemical combination of phenolic compounds with...

Should wine be decanted, and in particular, white wine?  The decanting of wine, is an act we do in order to give a wine oxygen. When wine interacts with oxygen...

Looking at the principles of winemaking and options we have in order to make the style of wine we require.  Harvest: Harvesting begins when the grapes have reached optimal phenolic...

  On Thursday the 26th of May we celebrated international Chardonnay day. My husband (winemaker, Martin Smith) and I have great respect and enduring love for this grape variety and...

The word 'terroir' originally derives from the Latin word territorium, or 'territory', but over time it lost that association and took on the meaning of the French word Terre, or...

To know exactly how a wine's flavours are influenced by the type of soil the grapes are grown in remains one of wine's central mysteries.  Soil not only retains heat...