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The Wine Chronicles

Follow us on our travels across Sardinia, introducing you to the island and the winemakers we work with.

Learn what makes Sardinian grapes and winemaking so special and why the world dismissed Sardinia as the poor man’s wine producer. Now, it could now hold the key to the industry’s sustainable future.

Find out what we've been up to in the UK as we share news and our thoughts on our sustainability journey, life as a small business, and what's happening more broadly in the world of wine.

The Wine Chronicles

Bottle of Sardinian Icore wine with braille label

Why we're introducing braille labels to our Sardinian wines

We're delighted to announce that Terra Sarda Wines has become the first wine seller in the country to put braille labels on its bottles - with a little help from BBC Radio 4!

Tagged: accessibility accessiblewines braille environment sardinianwine
A glass of white wine in a hand against a blue sky with white clouds

Slow wine in Sardinia and North Yorkshire: in celebration of Yorkshire Day

In honour of Yorkshire Day! Two families. Two Vineyards. 1,000 miles apart. What could these English and Sardinian winemakers possibly have in common!

Tagged: englishwine malton sardinia sardinianwine slowwine yorkshire yorkshireday
Screen shot of Sommly home page with the world: Every UK Wine Event, In One Place

Why are wine tastings so hard to find?

Dan Ives turned a severe case of FOMO into Sommly, the ‘new Eventbrite’ for UK wine lovers... and among the first tastings to be featured were Terra Sarda Wines'!

Tagged: wine wine expert wine tasting
Emmanuelle Metz, Metz Cheesemonger founder, holding a soft-rind cheese at her Leeds shop counter

Spotlight on Emmanuelle Metz: spreading the joy of cheese in Leeds

For Emmanuelle Metz, founder of METZ Cheesemonger in Farsley, cheese is so much more than food... it's a memory, a joy and a campaign!

Emma Moore raising glass of white wine with guests

Interview with Wine Lady Emma: The story of a Yorkshire 'winfluencer'

The girl who grew up treading grapes in East Yorkshire to become one of the industry's least stuffy experts – it's all about enjoyment, not judgement

Tagged: wine expert wine tasting WSET York
The Sculpture Gallery, Leeds, logo overlaid on a picture of sculptures.

New Partnership with The Sculpture Gallery in Leeds

Sculpture has played an important role in Sardinian culture for thousands of years. As has wine! So, we are thrilled to bring them together by sponsoring a unique gallery, dedicated to 3D art in Leeds. 

Tagged: art art exhibiitions Leeds northernartists sculpture wine winetasting yorkshire
Crates of white grapes beside recently harvested vines. with blue sky in the background

Tackling sustainability in the wine supply chain

When we went out to Sardinian growers for help with a York University study, co-ordinated by The Impact Shift, on sustainable winemaking practices in our supply chain, the answers that came back were surprising

Tagged: environment
Bud break on December 6 2024 near Villasimius, south east Sardinia

Hull to become the ‘new Bordeaux’?

That's how The Independent newspaper headlined a report in April. We wrote a LinkedIn post about it read our LinkedIn post on Hull's wine scene. In fact, the study the...
Tagged: climate change environment viticulture wine winegrowing
Aru Winery owner Mario Aru standing infront of solid wooden gates with friend Marco

Winegrower Spotlight: Aru Winery, Iglesias

Mario Aru, right, and fellow winemaker, friend, and right-hand man Marco, left (who, incidentally, created this fun wine-and-bottle door handle!) The story of Aru Winery is one of dedication and...
Three glasses of white wines being chinked at a tasting table

It’s tasting time!

Launching a wine club isn’t easy! Licences, inspections, broken pallets of precious wine (no broken bottles, thankfully!), a fiendishly complicated new UK alcohol duty regime to get our heads around,...