Wine is all about pleasure, right? OK, maybe that’s a simplification, but the bottom line is that in a world where we don’t have to drink wine toa) get us in such a mood to attack marauding Gothsb) warm our cockles because we live in a central-heating-less yurtc) warp our […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
Nothing too wine-y today – gearing up to taste dozens of South African Sauvignons next week, but today’s a day when I should be writing and hoping that editors don’t ring up saying ‘Where’s my article on ___?’ But while I’m here, my sister has packed many jobs into her […]
Extremely lost in translation
1) Thou shalt not kill. If you’re planning to keep wine at home for anything more than a couple of years, you need to give serious thought to where and how it is stored, otherwise you could ruin it. More of that in a future post, but for now, it’s […]
The ten commandments of the wine cellar
I confess, this lunchtime, I had a glass of Pinot Grigio. I know, I know, I’m supposed to talk about wine here rather than Pinot Grigio. A press release came through a couple of months ago from a company suggesting that the southern Italian grape Fiano might be ‘the next […]
Too much, too young
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 […]
Rioja, but not as we know it
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…