One of the great pleasures of working in the wine trade is visiting wineries. Standing in the vineyards, walking amongst the vats and talking to the people who actually make the wine happen will always give you a greater insight and understanding of any wine. One thing I haven’t done before is to ...
This just in from Roger Jones of The Harrow…
On Tuesday 9th August over 60 Australian Wine Enthusiasts turned up at The Harrow at Little Bedwyn to decide on their favourite Australian Riesling and Chardonnay. Over 50 wines were entered, all being either 4 or 5 Star rated in Decanter Magazine ...
Luigi Buonanno is Group sommelier and wine buyer for the Etrusca group of restaurants. He’s also a keen wine blogger, writing on Italian wine website Doctor Wine.
Here he reviews Kenton Bacchus – with some poignant observations on the whole English wine connundrum.
“It is quite a funny thing that we think that ...
Jean Trimbach, 12th generation of the celebrated Alsace winery, was in London this week for an outstanding tasting. Never has our RSVP inbox rattled with so many prompt responses; rarely have we seen such a turnout of London’s top sommeliers in one place at one time. The roll call of ...
Journeyed to the Soave district on Monday, in the company of broadcaster Olly Smith and winewomansong herself, Juel Mahoney. First stop was the iconoclast Roberto Anselmi. Roberto took over from his father in the 1970s, and set about transforming what had been a supplier of fairly ordinary wine into ...
Patrick Pigny, Enotria sales rep extraordinaire in the West Country (and as gallic as the game itself), reports that Enotria entered a team snappily named “The Untouchaboules” in the annual Wells Charity Boules match. This is organised by The Crown at Wells and raises money for the Nepal Trust. Sadly ...