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Cambridge Distillery

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Chris Kaplonski, Data Analyst, Sustainability Nerd

Gin. Legally, it must be a flavoured ethyl alcohol-based drink with 37.5% ABV or above. The predominant element in the flavour must be juniper. That’s pretty much it. There are distinctions and categories, some official, some not: London Dry Gin, Old Tom, Navy Strength.  There is thus a massive scope for experiment and variation in gin, as anyone who has shopped for gin lately well knows.

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Riesling classifications

Chris K looking pensive in Austria
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Chris Kaplonski, Data Analyst, Sustainability Nerd

German wine classifications are almost as confusing and complicated as German wine labels as a whole appear to be. There are just a few basic things you need to know about to have more confidence in shopping for a German wine, Riesling or not. I’m not going into every nuance of the system, since, frankly, a lot of it doesn’t matter to most wine drinkers, unless you are trying to impress somebody. There’s a graphic representing the classification system on our Monthly Wine Specials page. In effect, this post will follow that pyramid from the bottom up.

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The Joy of White Burgundy

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Brett Turner, Head of Marketing, Retail and Wine Bars; Wine Buyer

If there’s a best white wine in the world, let’s face it, it’s a White Burgundy. The ancestral home of Chardonnay, emulated globally, home to the greatest concentration of grand white wines in the world. There are few greater pleasures in life than a glass of stony, honeyed, chalky, vanilla/nut-laced White Burgundy, and we have one of the best selections in the land: from tiny unknown growers to grand aristocratic estate, from the famed appellations to under-rated corners.

 

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