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Welcome to Jane Clare’s wine blog. Here you’ll find her latest drinks’ recommendations, and stories about the wine places and wine people Jane has discovered.
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Raise a Glass: Italian wines were the flavours of my moments
The Raise a Glass feature is published every week in several regional newspapers … here’s one from May 2021 when my world was dominated by
Raise a glass: Spring red wines roadtest the garden bench
The Raise a Glass feature is published every week in several regional newspapers … here’s one from the end of April 2021 when the garden
The best Christmas fizz: My 2020 festive sparkling wine choices under £20
Every year I run a consumer page blind taste-test to discover my pick of the bubbles for Christmas and New Year. In 2020 it was
White wines for Christmas 2020: Eleven festive choices over £10
The Raise a Glass feature is published every week … my countdown to Christmas wines 2020 began in November. Here’s my selection of Christmas white
Christmas white wines 2020: My festive choices under £10
The Raise a Glass feature is published every week … my countdown to Christmas wines 2020 began way back at the beginning of November. Here’s my
Raise a Glass: Côtes du Rhône at Home was an absolute wine treat!
The Raise a Glass feature is published every week … here’s when I enjoyed a Côtes du Rhône at Home experience. I listened as experts
Raise a Glass: Drinks for summer include Californian delights
The Raise a Glass feature is published every week … here’s one from the middle of July when we were beginning to see lockdown ease.
Raise a Glass: Summertime pinks and a couple of sweet Aldi gins
The Raise a Glass feature is published every week … here’s one where I looked at summertime pinks and a couple of gins. Oh my,
Raise a Glass: Delicious chardonnay wines and a zesty French white
The Raise a Glass feature is published every week. Here’s one from June in lockdown when white wines took my fancy. Chardonnay wines mainly, plus
Top Posts & Pages
- Co-operative wine: Nine top wine picks from my exclusive summer tasting
- WSET Courses
- Home
- Eight white wine treats from Domaines Paul Mas and a delicious red too
- Discover joy of some of the best Abruzzo wines from Italy and you won't regret it
- Raise a Glass: Cramele Recas wines and the simplest of cocktails
- Camper Vin is wine for campers and festival-goers. But what's it like?
- Events
- Asti DOCG: Discover the incredible story behind these Italian sparkling wines
- Here's four white Bordeaux wines to try at Christmas