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New National Alcohol Limits are out of Step with Reality, ONS Reveals
Posted on Sat 21st Jun 2014 at 13:49
The Office of National Statistics has released figures showing that nearly 9% of British people drank more than the new recommended alcohol limit of 14 units per week in a single day.
We are delighted to be featured in this month’s issue of Scottish Licensed Trade News.
Few of us are aware of the almost magical role of microbes (especially yeast and bacteria) in transforming simple raw ingredients into much of the food and drink we have come to regard as essential.
Writing in Harper's, Tim Atkin has recently suggested we must all be held responsible for the proliferation of cheap wine that is flooding the market. Not only have the bigger retailers engaged in a loss-leading price war on bottles of wine, he argues, but "importers, agents, journalists, PR people and retailers have all failed to make a collective case for trading up".Anyone who has seen consumers enter their shop and immediately start browsing the selection by price will know what kind of culture this has created. As the recent UK Wine Market Landscape 2014 report demonstrated, we live i
We are delighted to see that Mike Tipping featured the Stobi Vranec in an edition of The Press this weekend.
Stobi Wines Featured in Harpers Article on Wines from Macedonia
Posted on Mon 21st Apr 2014 at 13:50
Darrel Josephs explores up and coming wines from Macedonia in his article in Harpers this month.Just back from his trip to Macedonia, in the heart of the Eastern Mediterranean, Darrel summarises his six day trip to the Balkans to taste the best the country has to offer.
Signature Wines was delighted to be featured twice on The Wine Hub’s blog this week, where Luiz Alberto selected Stobi as one of his three favourite wineries in the Republic of Macedonia.
Just think of the triple word score for a name like that (for any scrabble players reading this).
One of the great things about being a winemaking consultant is that you get to travel a lot. I've travelled on rickety buses over the Andes, followed snow ploughs through Italian storms and been stranded by flash floods in Spain. But sometimes you get to go to places that you may never have thought of going before.Many people's view of Eastern Europe is that it's cold but welcome to Macedonia, the Australia of Eastern Europe. Here sunshine is so much part of the culture that it is actually on their national flag. This sunshine informs the personality of the wine - bold and ripe reds sit al
Get ready for summer with Stobi’s new range of white wines, coming soon
Posted on Fri 21st Mar 2014 at 13:51
Signature Wines is delighted to announce that the new range of white wines from the Stobi Winery is expected to arrive into the UK during May. This range has been specially blended by Master of Wine Jo Ahearne and will complement the popular range of reds already established.The collection will include Muscat Ottonel, Chardonnay and a newly blended Stobi Cuvée, which is created from an intriguing mix of grapes; R’kaciteli, Žilavka and Župljanka, all local to the Eastern Mediterranean region.New to the collection wi