Tag Archives: organic wine

What’s the Difference Between Filtered and Unfiltered Wines?

What's the Difference Between Filtered Wines and Unfiltered Wines?

What’s the difference between filtered wines and unfiltered wines? Wine is a liquid in limbo – a step on the slippery slope that runs from grape juice to vinegar. You see finished wine is not a naturally stable product, it’s always at risk of destabilising, of going bad, and anything left behind in the wine […]

The Complete Guide: What You Need To Know About Wine Additives

wine additives

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 […]

Embrace Organic September With Organic Wine

Organic September

It’s that time of year again folks, yup, it’s Organic September brought to you by Soil Association, and to get you into the mood for all things organic for the month ahead, we thought we’d give you a few reasons why organic is better than conventional. We’re big supporters of all things organic here at […]

What Goes Into Sustainable Wine? 

Sustainable Wine

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 […]

Buy Organic Wine If You’re Going to Buy Organic Food

Buy organic food and buy organic wine

If you are buying organic food, what is the reason you are not buying organic wine? If you’re investing your hard earned money ensuring that you eat well by only purchasing organic food, you are doing yourself a disservice if you aren’t then purchasing organic wine too. It’s actually incredibly surprising how few organic devotees […]

The Hugely Talented Winemaker Frank Cornelissen

Frank Cornelissen

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 […]

The Xarel-lo varietal, Or is it Xarello or Xarel.lo?

Xarel-lo

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, […]

Have You Tried The Wonders From Schubert Wines?

schubert

Have you tried Schubert wines?  Well, I hadn’t either until not too long ago and now I want to keep trying them!! SCHUBERT WINES is the dynamic vision of Kai Schubert and Marion Deimling, graduates of the esteemed Viticulture and Oenology University of Geisenheim, Germany. Both Kai and Marion were born and raised in Germany. […]

Our Vegan Wines For Your Veganuary

wines for Veganuary

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 […]

Try Some Low Alcohol Wines Instead!

low alcohol wine

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 […]

Introducing the wines of Bodegas Menade

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, […]

Best Hangover Cures: 5 Ways To Cure a Hangover Faster

hangover cures

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 […]

Our Wine Subscription Plan: Wine Delivered Monthly

wine subscription

Have you seen advantages of our wine subscription plan? Pull The Cork wine subscription plan will enable you to have monthly deliveries of your favourite wines straight to your door, without the added hassles of physically going online to order them. The service will enable monthly, every 3, or every 6 months of wine case […]

Sustainable Wines Are On The March: Less Is More

Sustainable wines are on the march

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 […]