What makes a wine "vegan"?
What makes a wine vegan? Isn't it just...grapes? Yes - and no. One of the great anomalies of wine is that despite being a food or...
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Sophie Griffiths
- Jul 12, 2022
- 5 min
Bluffer's Guide: How to act like a wine expert
So you want to look like a wine "expert", even though being handed the wine list makes you break out in a cold sweat? Maybe you want to...
Sophie Griffiths
- Jul 6, 2022
- 6 min
36 Hours in Rome for Second Timers
This is not a post for Rome virgins. On your first visit, you have to pay your dues. Itineraries planned, tickets pre-booked. That bucket...
Sophie Griffiths
- Mar 23, 2022
- 4 min
Travel Guide: Planning a Wine Tasting Day in Mornington Peninsula
Only 1.5 hours from Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula is a brilliant option for a day of wine tasting thanks to its compactness, focus and...
Sophie Griffiths
- Mar 23, 2022
- 7 min
Prepping Your Palate & Mind for WSET Diploma Tasting Exams
How to prepare your palate for Diploma tasting exam - some practical advice and exam-day hacks to help you feel prepared and in control.
Sophie Griffiths
- Feb 3, 2022
- 2 min
A Book Lover's Guide to Wine: Wines As Romantic Icons
1. Heathcliff A swarthy, formidable hero of exotic origins; brooding, earthy and untamed. The Lebanese icon has always been produced with...
Sophie Griffiths
- Jan 28, 2022
- 2 min
Winter Wonders: Celeriac with Truffled Lentils & Roasted Hazelnuts
This was an 'I-can't-be-bothered-to-go-to-the-shop' riff on Ottolenghi's 'Celeriac and Lentils with Hazelnuts and Mint' and I think works...
Sophie Griffiths
- Jan 17, 2022
- 2 min
Fragrant Yellow Thai Fish Curry with Prawn & Crab
This fragrant and rich curry is perfect for off-dry fragrant whites like Riesling and Alsace Pinot Gris. The secret is not to hold back...
Sophie Griffiths
- Dec 5, 2021
- 4 min
The Christmas Gift Guide
All your Christmas gifting needs sorted! Each of these will arrive tissue-wrapped and presented in Flexi-Hex Honeycomb recyclable bottle...
Sophie Griffiths
- Sep 13, 2021
- 17 min
WSET Diploma: How to survive D3 without losing your mind (completely)
If you've come here because you're panicking about the WSET D3 module, I've got you. Take a deep breath and just know you are not alone....
Sophie Griffiths
- Aug 26, 2021
- 7 min
How to: Choose Your Wedding Wine.
Wine is an integral part of any wedding celebration in our western culture. It also represents one of the biggest variable costs in the...
Sophie Griffiths
- May 24, 2021
- 3 min
THAT Baked Feta & Tomato Pasta recipe...
For a period of time over February this year, it was impossible to get hold of feta cheese. Did you notice? I certainly did. I had seen...
Sophie Griffiths
- Mar 25, 2021
- 3 min
Black Garlic & Tomato Slow-Cooked Lamb Shanks
A warming, deeply moreish Lamb recipe and a great twist on the usual Easter Lamb roast for your Easter Sunday lunch. This will warm your...
Sophie Griffiths
- Mar 7, 2021
- 10 min
Women in wine: 5 moments that reshaped wine in 2020
The last live event that Vignette Wine hosted in 2020, before the pandemic hit, was an #International Women's Day celebration of women...
Sophie Griffiths
- Sep 14, 2020
- 3 min
Recipes from Sicily: Pasta alla Norma
A real Sicilian classic, you can barely go wrong with this recipe which is pure, indulgent comfort food. The name comes from the opera...
Sophie Griffiths
- Sep 14, 2020
- 2 min
Recipes from Sicily: Tonno all’Eoliana - Aeolian-style Marinated Tuna with Capers & Fresh Tomato
Capers, these spicy, pungent little buds are commonly found in Sicilian cooking, seeing as they are cultivated on the island of...
Sophie Griffiths
- Sep 14, 2020
- 3 min
Recipes from Sicily: Orange & Fennel Sicilian Tuna Ceviche
One morning while anchored up in a bay on the island of Vulcano, we were greeted by the sight of a fishing boat offering us to buy some...
Sophie Griffiths
- Aug 11, 2020
- 4 min
7 Ways To Quickly Chill Wine & Keep It Ice Cold
Sacre Bleu! You forgot to put a bottle of wine in the fridge earlier! Here are my tips for cooling wine down pronto...
Sophie Griffiths
- Jul 21, 2020
- 8 min
What the hell is natural wine?
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO ASK ABOUT NATURAL WINE So now that we've dealt with some of the claims of Cameron Diaz's new Avaline "Clean...
Sophie Griffiths
- Jul 21, 2020
- 9 min
The Genius and The Disingenuity of Cameron Diaz’s new "Clean Wine"
Last week Cameron Diaz and her business partner Katherine Power launched a ‘clean’ wine brand: Avaline. “Cameron Diaz and Katherine Power...
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