tasting wine and saving lives – your more than average guide to the good stuff.
My normal route in the morning is currently closed. There are signs everywhere stating ‘Diversion’ but curious as I am, I thought I’d go past all of them to see just how closed we were talking. It turns out, there’s just a tiny bit of scaffolding up for the rebuilding of a wall, plenty of [...]
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 [...]
“Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.” Agatha Christie I wish I'd cooked this evening. If I had, it would be my absolute favourite duck dish inspired by Ross' Mum to pair with the beautiful Chateau Montus 2011 I am currently drinking. I've written about the Tannat grape before [...]
I'd been eyeing up the Old Bridge wine fair for some time, wondering whether I should go. These things can get out of hand you see and with so many wines to try, and such little room in my cellar, there was the potential for things to end in disaster. I was saved, albeit to [...]
I thought Sober October would be harder, I really did. I mean, we're only halfway through but I'm not quitting now, it's too easy. There was only one day where I shed a little tear that I wasn't going home to a cosy bottle of red and that was on the 2nd October. Amidst my [...]
I suppose this is completely boring of me by beginning by talking about the weather but we need to acknowledge the drop in temperature so that I can explain the huge pile up of big reds I have on my windowsill waiting to be reviewed. It was all so innocent before, rosé here, a light [...]
With the recent lovely dose of Vitamin D, everyone went a bit rosé mad didn’t they? Pale rosé to be precise, couldn’t possibly be seen with anything pinker than ‘Setting Plaster’ in Stamford (and the rest of the world it seems.) The demise of a juicy rosé is something I recently discussed with the fascinating [...]
