by Shane Dunning, Woodwinters On delivering some wine to a customer in rural Perthshire recently I was thanked by being handed a large heavy Tesco bag with a hairy bone sticking out of the top.  Inside was a whole leg of roe deer.  Getting the leg home and scaring my partner out of her skin with my bloodied hairy offering I proceeded to casserol it simply and went to dig out a suitable bottle of wine to enj ...

by Shane Dunning,  Woodwinters     Although clearly my invite got lost in the post I have it on good authority that William and Kate's guests enjoyed Pol Roger Champagne at their wedding reception on Friday.   Pol Roger has a long association with the gentry of Britain, it was Winston Churchill's favourite Champagne and he enjoyed so much of their fizz that Pol Roger added a ...

We have our very own wine expert!  Shane Dunning works for Woodwinters, a wine merchant and wholesaler based in Bridge of Allan and Edinburgh. Shane has previously worked in the wine trade in London and Edinburgh and is an enthusiastic communicator about wine, regularly giving talks and hosting wine tastings. He is originally from Somerset but claims not to chew straw nor drive a combine ...