| Spent the morning tasting rose Champagnes blind. 57 of them were lined up for a Wine & Spirit tasting held at the WSET, and it proved a rather demanding session. The problem with these sorts of... | |
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| France Under One Roof is the title of a large annual tasting held here in the UK, the 2008 installment of which I attended today. Held at the Nursery Pavillon, Lords, it's an event that brings... | |
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| Tasting two wines and a beer:Domaine du Closel La Jalousie Savennières 2005 Loire, FranceA really fantastic, intense dry Chenin from the Loire, boasting aromas of herbs, honey, straw and lanolin. The... | |
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| California makes some great wine. It also makes some dire wine. I know this is a bit of a generalization, but in the UK we mostly see the former - central valley rubbish (the big Californian brands -... | |
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| Just on the way home from a very interesting day, spent at the UK Vineyards Association Symposium, held in Oxford.I’d been asked to give a talk. I'm always a bit embarassed by such invitations,... | |
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| Periquita is, if I recall correctly, the Portuguese word for parrot. It was until fairly recently a synonym for the Castelao grape variety. And it is also the name of Portugal's oldest wine brand,... | |
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| Went to the rugby yesterday, courtesy of Pernod Ricard's wine division. Tim Atkin and Oz Clarke were also there (pictured), and we had a very jolly time.I've not been to see a six nations... | |
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| It's been a nice day here at the Goode residence, as I end week two of my freelance life. I confess: Fiona and I took another long Friday lunch together. This time we went to Richmond and ate at... | |
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| Five Spanish wines tasted tonight in an impromptu line-up. Good, solid commercial wines, these. The two Laithwaites wines were nice surprises: I wasn't expecting them to be up to much, but they were... | |
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| One of my favourite ways of relaxing is by doing a bit of work. This sounds nuts: it makes me out to be some crazy sort of workaholic who needs to get his head examined, his priorities sorted out and... | |
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