Following on from our popular piece on what the wine experts will be opening this Christmas, we felt we had to ask the people who actually produce these beauties what they will be choosing on the 25th. So, without further ado, here are some great recommendations from the vignerons themselves: ...
For a bit of seasonal fun we asked a wide number of wine writers and sommeliers what kind of wines they’d open themselves on Christmas Day. After the thousands of wines they will have tasted, swirled and spat out over 2011, what would they be choosing to put on the ...
Last night I went to a very enjoyable, fun event put on by Wine Australia in London. University Wine Champions takes the University Challenge model and ‘winefies’ it. Two teams from rival universities (in this case Edinburgh and Bath) taste 6 wines under the expert tutelage of Sarah Ahmed (the ...
…Is a decent bottle or two of wine to open on the big day. Judging by a quick straw poll of my colleagues, everyone’s got a different wine style to take their fancy! Daniel in the buying team reckons that Henriot Blanc de Blancs makes the perfect kick off ...
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Teaching a WSET course while the sun rises over the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands was certainly a first and beat previous top venues such as Wayne Bridge’s VIP box overlooking Man City stadium and the fabulous view of Watergate Bay from Fifteen in ...
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The great thing about wine is that it takes you on a journey and the greater the wine, the greater the journey, and the more unusual the names. Last night, Cyriaque and I hosted a Piemonte dinner at the Pheasant in Harome near the heathery grouse moors of ...