For all wine aficionados, there is nothing better than discovering new wines that come from great wineries from all over the world. But when you are not so familiar with all types of wine, it can be intimidating seeing new wines that you haven’t tried before, such as fortified wines. So what is fortified wine? […]
Do you know about these common (and not so common) wine additives? Winemaking, in theory, is such an easy process – you pick grapes, crush them and let the naturally present yeast work its magic. Using the sugar from the grapes, the yeast turns the resulting liquid from grape juice into wine. But life isn’t […]
Natural wine is here to stay. And before you ask – but isn’t all wine natural? The short answer is no. Yes, wine is a natural product, a result of fermenting grapes, but conventional wine, the stuff most often bought in supermarkets and online, isn’t natural in terms of what wine should be. Here is […]
What goes into sustainable wine? You might not think that the wine industry plays much of a role in the destruction of our planet, but viticulture and vineyards really do need to be given a long hard look at, as long as wine remains popular. Why? Because most vineyards are treated as monocultures and as such […]
Have you tried Frank Cornelissen exquisite natural wines? Just last week I was presented with the opportunity to stock these remarkable wines from an even more remarkable person – Frank Cornelissen. These natural wines from Mount Etna are incredibly hard to get your hands on and are produced in very small quantities, which presented us […]
Have you tried the amazing wines from Xarel-lo grape variety? Or is it Xarello or Xarel.lo? How do you even pronounce it? Recently I have been trying a lot of new (to Pull The Cork) wines and have stumbled across quite a few amphorae Xarel-lo’s. When I was uploading one to the site this week, […]
Testalonga wines – have you tried these premium South African wines? Craig Hawkins, the winemaker at Testalonga, is in a pretty brilliant place right now, he’s just released his new vintage to the world!! He and (wife) Carla are now ensconced in Bandits Kloof in Piketberg, the northern reaches of the Swartland. He finally has […]
Searching for wines for Veganuary? Never heard of Veganuary? Well, neither had I until last week. It’s pronounced (vee-GAN-uary) and as you can probably guess, it’s a New Year’s resolution to eat only plant-based foods for the month of January. Why did you decide to go vegan? Giving a vegan lifestyle a try for a […]
Having worked a large part of my legal drinking life in the wine trade, I have never been able to take part in Dry Jan – so for me, there has always been the alternative route, which is either drinking less – which in my role is pretty impossible, resorting to watery alcohol free wheat […]
A producer that we have grown very fond of recently – Bodegas Menade – Produced in Rueda – Enjoyed in the UK! Bodegas Menade began back in 1820 when their ancestors tended vineyards in a wide variety of sites that today form part of DO Rueda. The wine-making was produced in an underground facility in La Seca, […]
Ever tried Pivnica Brhlovce sparkling wines? We were so happy to discover these magnificent sparkling volcanic wines from Slovakia, and would like to share with you our experience. Brhlovce village, a UNESCO heritage site located in heart of Slovakia, and located on the slopes of stratovolcano Sitno, which erupted 5 million years ago, is a […]
Think you know all the benefits of natural red wine? We might prove you wrong. Wine, or variants of it, have been around for millennia, with the earliest version of Pull the Cork around over six thousand years ago in Armenia – well, a winery producing natural red wine – which is what we sell. […]
All of our customers drink responsibly and have never had a hangover in their lives. But that might not be the case for their more unfortunate friends. So here we are, asking for a friend, what are the best hangover cures? Maybe it would help to know what a hangover is. But despite our ability […]
Is wine suitable for vegans? These days there are many more people out there that are conscious about their health, and who are also conscious about what’s in the glass, what’s on the label, and what wine additives are actually added in the making of that given wine. When searching for vegan wines the best […]
Sustainable wines ARE on the march! The increasingly conscientious consumer (try saying that a couple of times after a few hours of wine tasting without using a spittoon), wants to know how their products are produced if they were made using sustainable methods and in a natural or organic way. This increasingly goes for food […]