There are three empty bottles in front of me. Did I drink the contents of them all? No. Did I drink a glass of any of them? No. But I tasted them several times to see if I could work out what the $*$! United Wineries were thinking of when […]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Click here to be astounded, offended, confounded by Gary Vay-ner-chuk on the Conan O’Brien show in the US. Not sure whether Jancis Robinson’s socks wouldn’t be more like pretty floral English wine than feral Fixin…
Socks and Rocks
Being a) clumsy and b) an enthusiastic wine drinker, I’m always in the market for decent cheap glasses. I will never call them stemware – does anyone call mugs handleware? I’ve been the proud owner of several Riedel glasses and I’ve smashed most of them, usually when shaking the last […]
Glass Act
I’ve been writing a piece for Wine & Spirit on small (less than 10,000 cases) producers, and as is often my wont, the deadline is somewhere in the distant past. So this morning, I set the alarm for 5:30, got up early and had polished it off by 9. A […]
In search of gentleness
I wish I’d thought of that… Just had a press release from UK supermarket Morrisons for the Casillero del Diablo Reserva Privada headed ‘The Devil Wears Privada’. Good one whoever thought that up, and curses that I didn’t include it in the wine films I did for Wine & Spirit […]
Wine films
Consumer tastings keep me sane. Well not so much sane as in touch with how normal people think – that’s ‘normal’ as in those who don’t spend all day spitting into buckets and sinks (note to self to post soon about spittoon nightmares). For pro spitters, it’s all too easy […]