It happened again last night. Was talking to someone after a wine tasting I’d done in conjunction with Taste-In and Spiral Cellars at the Smallbone Kitchens showroom in Harrogate. The wines had gone down pretty well, but afterwards, someone came and said that they hadn’t like the two reds (Henschke’s […]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
If you’ve not come across Scoff, it’s a food & wine e-newsletter that brings open-source thinking to the food & wine publishing world. So the contributors and the editors just do it for the love of sharing knowledge – makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The latest edition […]
Scoring, Scoff and Sweetcorn
Like buses, innit? You wait ages for a post and then two come along in quick succession. Don’t be surprised to see more of the ammo accumulated over the past several weeks of tasting in the next few days. Two of the main events of the past fortnight have been […]
Ein Zwei Dry – the battle of the tastings
If posts have been scarce in the last couple of weeks, it’s because September and October are the tasting season, during which every wine company and its dog seems to want to show of their wares. Attempting to get to three or four events a day is not uncommon, and […]
What women, sorry, wine writers want…
I’m hoping my lovely wife Jill, set to return from a few days away in France with a friend of ours, doesn’t read this. Because it’s all about being selfish. OK, maybe not exactly selfish, but self-indulgent – there’s at least a finely honed Sabatier knife’s-width between the two… The […]
The wife’s away, the mouse will play
Will report on how accurate my predictions were of the SW France tasting very soon. In the meantime, let’s talk about wine ‘bad hair’ days. Yes, I know it’s just fermented grape juice. Yes, I know that if wine were to disappear, the world would not. And yes, I know […]