How To Taste Wine: Learn From My Mistakes Wine is not like beer in that, most of the time, it is 3 to 4 times as potent. In a big wine tasting, wine is usually free to taste unlike beer which you pay for a drinking measure. For these reason, it is very easy to get carried away and miss out on a lot of stunners due to over-consumption in a short space of time.

  Welcome to Picturedrome How time flies! It’s been a month since Picturedrome in Macclesfield opened. It’s a bit surreal really. Since 2014 the team behind Altrincham Market House and Mackie Mayor in Manchester have been on a roll. Redefining the concept of community-led, independently-minded and -operated food and drink.

  How a reduction in UK wine duty would result in a win-win-win scenario for all involved Reserve’s owner, Kate Goodman was interviewed by the Sunday Times last week about the vertiginous rise in the duty rates applicable to wine products over the last decade or two.