Monthly Archives: November 2007


The line-up:-Robert Joseph – founder of What Wine (which became Wine, Which became Wine International which became Wine & Spirit) and inventor of the International Wine Challenge (he’s also a former boss of mine).Allan Cheesman – ex-Sainsbury’s guru largely responsible for beginning the supermarket wine revolution.Neil Tully – a Master […]

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better


A Clash song, for those querying the title. Yes, 1977, the year when I made the fateful decision to study O Level Geography – why, oh why? Our teacher, unfortunately a distant relative, would tell us useful things like ‘it rains most in the wet season’. He was one of […]

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