Combine your wine tasting with a Capital City Break to Remember.

The Capital’s exciting new summer event offers a wonderful wine tasting experience in the company of one of the world’s most-popular wine critics Shaking off the last of winter, it’s time to make plans to get out and about again, and the best place to start is the launch of Edinburgh Uncorked Wine Fair with Oz Clarke on Saturday June 3rd at the city’s prestigious Assembly Rooms on George Street. This one-day only wine tasting experience is the Capital’s newest wine event and

Most of us have heard of Veganuary in some way. The annual challenge to promote veganism by encouraging as many people as possible to follow a vegan lifestyle throughout January started in 2014 and has grown rapidly. The UK non-profit organisation behind the Veganuary campaign reports that more than 620 ,000 people worldwide took a vegan approach during the 2022 campaign. But what does vegan mean for wine lovers? Wine is from grapes, so surely it must be vegan? If only life

Lidl’s Festive Wine Tour was packed full of an impressive collection of high scoring hidden gems. We had a lot of fun checking them over the course of just one evening. It was a great festive and amusing evening by Zoom helped by Lidl’s Chris Scott. Everyone was asked to score the wines out of 5 and here are the results. It’s very interesting to see how we, as the actual consumers, scored the wines vs the scores given by Lidl’s tasting panel which is expertly headed up by

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. We are delighted to welcome Buck & Birch to Fizz Feast for the first time and explore the alchemy behind their botanical-based drinks. A love of the outdoors and a fascination for wild ingredients are at the heart of this brand’s innovat

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we’re delighted to welcome regular exhibitor Riedel back to the Fizz Hall. The perfect partner for a sparkling wine festival, Riedel, established in 1756, has been producing glassware in Europe for more than 265 years, through 11 g

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. We are really pleased to welcome Trotter’s Independent Condiments back to Fizz Feast. With a unique range of seasonal condiments, there is something here for everyone to love – whether you are buying for yourself or looking for a foodie Chris

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we’re delighted to welcome regular exhibitor WSET back to the Fizz Hall again. If you’ve ever wanted to know a bit more about spirits, wondered just what your palate could tell you, or considered whether you had a nose for wine, yo

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we’re delighted to welcome new exhibitor Waitrose to the Fizz Hall. Waitrose & Partners is the first UK retailer to have its own vineyard. Leckford Estate, on the Waitrose Farm in Hampshire, is where the grapes are grown and picked

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we’re delighted to welcome new exhibitor Sugarbird Wines to the Fizz Hall. On the SugarBird stand, look out for De Grendel Proposal Hill Brut Rosé, a perfect welcoming drink to enjoy with canapes; the Boschendal, Brut NV, SA, is pa

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we’re delighted to welcome new exhibitor 'Cap Classsique Association' to the Fizz Hall again. Established in 1992, the Cap Classique Producers Association (CCPA) came about through a group of producers who shared a passion for bot

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. Popular all year round for excellent, value-for-money wines, we are delighted to welcome Lidl back to Fizz Feast. With everything from Cava, Prosecco, Crémant and Champagne, the award-winning supermarket wine retailer will have something spe

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we’re delighted to welcome regular exhibitor Goldenacre Wines back to the Fizz Hall again. Familiar to Edinburgh’s Inverleith residents, Goldenacre Wines might be a new name to those outside the area. Tucked away at the back of Cost

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we’re delighted to welcome new exhibitor Mionetto Prosecco DOC to the Fizz Hall. Dating from 1887, when master wine-maker Francesco Mionetto established this winery in the hills of Valdobbiadene, in the heart of Prosecco country,

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we’re delighted to welcome new exhibitor Vino Fandango to the Fizz Hall. A small, family-run, independent wine merchant based in the pretty Perthshire village of Comrie, Vino Fandango is well-known for the diversity of its wines, a

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we're delighted to welcome regular exhibitor Hoods Honey back to the Fizz Hall again. Beekeeper George Hood was the founder of the company which is based in East Lothian and has been producing honey since 1950. Remarkably, almost 70

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we're delighted to welcome Sardinian Sparkling Wine Producer Sella&Mosca to the Fizz Hall for the first time Sella&Mosca was founded in Alghero in north western Sardinia by Mr Sella, an engineer, and Mr Mosca, an attorney, in 1899. S

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. This year we're delighted to welcome Seabuckthorn Scotland to the Feast Hall for the first time. Seabuckthorn is a hardy, thorny, pioneer plant that thrives in conditions where other plants cannot – has long been known for its powerful antioxi

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. One of the best-known names in the world of sparkling wine, we are delighted to welcome Taittinger Champagne back to Fizz Feast. Taittinger is one of the very few Grand Marque Champagne Houses still owned and managed by the family name on the l

As part of the run-up Fizz Feast on Saturday 19 November at Edinburgh Academy, now in its sixth year, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous feast and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates. We are delighted to welcome Ailsa Proverbs, MBE, and her delicious creation The Big Cheese Making Kit to the Feast Hall this year. When Ailsa first tried making cheese at home, she had no idea her passion would grow into The Big Cheese Making K