Just marking time before going out for what may be a troublesome evening with Robert Joseph and potentially Adrian Atkinson, ex-Oddbins buyer and now a man breathing life into the Pernod Ricard wine portfolio. But the day has been taken up with a delicious lunch at Chez Bruce (veal cheek […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
Power Point presentations… Is there anyone anywhere whose life has benefited from one? Normally, the guy in charge puts some slides on a screen, reads what’s one the slides, gives you a hard copy of what is one the slides plus a CD of what is on the slides and […]
To soak or not to soak?
‘And remember, we’ve got people round this evening….’ The sign-off from her indoors and she set off out off doors hung over the kitchen like the aftermath of an evening on Old Peculier and kebabs. Tidy up all those wines, in other words. So down the sink went the remains […]
The perils of the wine writer, Episode 348
To the roster of excellent Swartland wineries, we can now add a new name – Mullineux Family Wines. It’s owned and run by Chris and Andrea Mullineux, with business input from wine nuts Keith Prothero and Peter Dart, and the first releases, from the 2008 vintage, have just arrived in […]
I’m tellin’ you, Mullineux
We’ll get to Chile in a moment, but I’m kicking off with New Zealand. I first visited the Land of the Long White Cloud in 1995 (I know because I came back from the trip with a rather useful blue zip-up bag and a polo shirt, now covered in various […]
Good old-fashioned Chilean wine
You’d expect wines called Toro to be big, beefy and bullish. And these reds made from 100% Tempranillo (aka Tinta de Toro) from a region to the west of the more famous Ribera del Duero usually lives up to such a billing. If you like big, meaty wines to go […]