Ceramic artist and maker, Ruben was born in Asturias, a province in the north of Spain, and his work echoes the beauty of that region. The area is a mixture of rugged cliffs, lush vegetation and wild, unspoiled beaches. The colours and textures he uses...
Guerrieri Rizzardi makes full use of the region’s best native grapes - Corvina, Corvinone, Garganega - but also plant other Italian and International grape varieties including Barbera, Sangiovese, Merlot and Chardonnay due to their suitability to the local soils. Daniel believes in producing wines as...
At OAK N4 we like to tell you about different varieties and producers and take you on little forays into new-ness. This time around we are introducing wines from places like Oregon, Greece and Georgia. Here are three temptresses from our recently rotated list for you...
If you like wine, then you are bound to notice when a wine is off. The general term for this is ‘corking’ or that the wine is ‘corked’....
Now that we’ve established how a good – or indeed a bad – vintage comes about then we start to think why is it that some wines age better than others and how we can select a great year....
Today I’m going to talk a little about vintage and what that term means and why it’s important. I’ll also chat a bit about ‘bottle age’ which is another wine term that is often mentioned in the same breath as vintage....
Orange wine is not new, centuries old in fact, but it has been growing in popularity over the past few years or so. Even the most distinguished and conservative lists like that of The Ritz have been updated with orange wines, so I read recently....
Sherry, as we all know, is a fortified wine. This means a wine that is strengthened by the addition of neutral grape brandy. Huh? Neutral grape brandy is the juice of ripe, red wine grapes, distilled to just below 95% alcohol, and then adjusted down...
Now here’s something that you might not have thought about when you’re drinking in a wine bar, Japanese Sake. OAK N4 in Finsbury Park is leading the way by introducing sake and it’s typical of the challenge – always gentle of course – that they...
As yours truly walked the streets of town yesterday, collar turned up against an icy easterly straight from the Baltic and beneath leaden skies, I was pensive about the number of people I know who are undertaking a ‘dry’ January. Certainly, to my mind, the...
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