Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Manchester Food & Drink Festival kicks off this week and runs until October 12th. For the first time, there’s going to be a special event for wine lovers in the form of the MFDF Independent and Local Wine Festival. This Friday and Saturday will see several of the North […]

Calling All Manchester Wine Lovers

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Saw on Facebook that Jamie Goode is currently staying at Quinta do Noval. Hope he’s having a great time, I have fond memories of being there at roughly the same point for the 1998 vintage, which was, not to mince words, one of the crapper years in recent memory. It […]

Quinta do Noval, Swedes and Morris Dancing

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…according to Tim Atkin in the Observer (see here) include this particular site. Thanks for that Tim, what you don’t see is my frustration with not having enough time in the day to really do with this web site what I want. I have notebooks full of tasing notes, a […]

The Best UK Wine Blogs…

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I’ve spooken, sorry, spoken about Spook the 3-legged cat of Cloudy Bay on these pages before  and I was reminded of her once again this week when I bumped into her former keeper, Kevin Judd. Kevin  has spent much of his life since the mid-1980s helping to propel Cloudy Bay […]

Kevin Judd and feline wine

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On the train on the way to London for yet more sniffing and spitting. Tomorrow, there’s the annual Argentine bash plus the autumn tastings of two of the UK’s top importers, Boutinot and Liberty Wines. Overload on one day surely? Maybe for those who live in London, but for those […]

Tasting etiquette from both sides of the table

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