I have a great sister called Stella (Google “Stella Woods” for more info). Sadly, she’s on her way back home to Melbourne after a month or so of our wonderful weather, and tonight, it’s our last evening en famille. If I can’t pull out some nice bottles at such a […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
Not sure what I think of Pommery Pink’s new label. Is it so kitsch as to be acceptable, or just out and out naff? Comments from women – surely the intended audience – I’ve asked haven’t been exactly positive. The wine itself is no great shakes, but then again flavour […]
Top of the Pops?
Thank you, thank you, thank you, to Krug’s UK PR Patricia Parnell for the bottle of the 1996 that landed (gently) on my doorstep last week. What she didn’t know was that yesterday was our wedding anniversary. So with the kids in bed, we popped the cork and settled down […]
Glug, glug, pass the Krug
The latest raft of stats from wine stats maestros AC Nielsen shows that exports to the UK of Chilean wine have overtaken those of Spain. Since Chile reopened its UK office in 2002, headed by the snappy dressing, dubious dancing Michael Cox, the long thin country has enjoyed a steady […]
Beep Beep! Chile coming through!
Bit of a hoo-haa brewing about South African red wines, with Jancis Robinson and Tim Atkin both saying they lag behind the whites, and unsurprisingly many – from the Cape, but also from elsewhere – disagreeing. Yes, there are some great SA reds but there are also some extremely clumsy […]
Cape of Good Hope – as long as it’s white
That’s what a friend of mine calls them. Another describes them as the sort of wines you could walk a mouse over. That’s right, I’m talking about bodybuilder wines, those made by people whose philosophy is that if ripe is good, then riper is better; if alcoholic is good, then […]