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This area of the site is here to help you develop your wine tasting skills and confidence, and deepen your enjoyment.
Building up, and making frequent dents in, your wine cellar is a life-long pleasure. Wines reflect personalities: we're here to help you define and understand your own preferences in wine through advice, tastings and wine events.
Drink what you love. The most important judgement when you're tasting wine, as a wine-loving consumer, is whether you like it. Even with fine Bordeaux, so often re-sold, the point about developing your tasting skills is to get under the skin of a wine, and relate that to your preferences, as well as your view on its ultimate quality.
See Sarah Abbot MW's tips on tasting for an introduction to professional tasting technique, and some more personal ideas about tasting and judging Bordeaux. Relate your tastes to and empower your buying decisions with a little background information on the grape varieties and regions of Bordeaux.
For more personal attention, take a look at our upcoming Tastings, Wine dinners and Masterclasses in the News section - all conceived to help you develop your interest in wine in the most convivial way! Finally, browse our wine list and get in touch with our team of wine experts. We are always delighted to talk wine, and will be very happy to help.
We're keen to develop this Wine Knowledge area around you. Email us with your question and our expert team will answer. We'll add it, together with the answer, to this section and email you once it's live.
About Sarah Abbott MW
Sarah Abbott is a highly-regarded wine educator, speaker and writer. Born into a family of restaurateurs, she cites greed and curiosity as the motivators for her passion for food and wine. After early jobs in marketing and hospitality, she joined the wine trade in 1996, working over the years with fine wines from France, Italy and Australia.
Sarah became a Master of Wine (MW) in 2008 after four years of study and working trips to Bordeaux, Burgundy, Italy and Australia. Sarah is the wine consultant exclusively to BWI, and works with us to deliver an unmissable range of wines, expert tasting notes, and engaging wine events.