Alvi’s Drift 221 Range: Sticker Price Sucker-Punch

Pic: Alvi’s Drift Wine shouldn’t be about a price point. Part marketing hype, part production expense, part controlled scarcity, pricing means that there are plenty of less-than-stellar wines out there that cost the earth but deliver as much as a wine that costs a two-thirds less. Similarly, some wines are massively expensive because they deliver. Similarly, your choice of wine […]

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Fancy a Sip of the Sea?

The effects of terroir on a wine can feel greatly exaggerated, with a metre of elevation here or a minute difference in soil composition, there, often used as marquee marketing elements in attempting to set it apart from its regional siblings. While there’s definitely merit to the assertion that the landscape and atmospheric conditions in which grapes are grown confer […]

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