tasting wine and saving lives – your more than average guide to the good stuff.
Just before I headed to London for my WSET, a friend introduced me to his Alsatian friend Gewurztraminer. He opened it to go with the chocolate death we were scoffing, a fairly self-explanatory pudding. I thought, hang on a second, I would wear this wine it smells so delightful and to taste so refined with [...]
I'm sorry, white lovers, but you're just going to have to bear with me when it comes to white wine, I just always forget to buy it. Plus, it's got awfully chilly all of a sudden and I'm really after some vin chaud not a chilled white wine. Sadly, this isn't Les Alps, it's Rutland [...]
A quick witted cricket critic. They say the weekend starts on Friday and they're not wrong. Having had a work event in the diary for quite some time, I took Wednesday and Thursday as 'wine free' days in preparation. Along came Friday and most of Zazzle (the company I work for) piled into a bus [...]
"We've had our summer, that's it." That's what my Mother announced to my wirehaired sausage dog this morning as she snuggled deeper into her cushion and looked up with those gloomy puppy eyes. For Chunky the sausage dog, rain means a day indoors because she absolutely detests getting a soggy tummy and I can't say [...]
I read The Sunday Times magazine at the weekend, almost page to page while lying out in the sunshine getting frazzled. In the wine section, a wise man called Will Lyons writes about the secret to happy Mondays: “Monday nights are special,” he says. “Energy levels are still high from the weekend, yet there [...]
