May 2012
5 posts
A Brave New World - M&S takes a daring stab at a...
(First posted on Harpers Online on 14th May 2012 at http://www.harpers.co.uk/news/news-headlines/12166-joe-wadsack-my-take-on-marks-a-spencers-new-middle-east-wine-range-.html)
Lemonia, the most family-friendly, plate-smashy, authentic Greek restaurant in all of London was the venue for Marks & Spencer’s latest press tasting on Friday.
It wasn’t entirely evident why, until, in...
Roberson's Funky Tasting
One of the must-go-to tastings of the year is Cliff Roberson’s annual press tasting.
Last week was no exception, but rather than writing some laboured, plodding review going around all 150 wines, I took pictures of the ones that really interested me. There was some seriously Cool for Cats kit. Starting with this…
Françis Egly is famously quiet and a man of few words, but he clearly...
Food wines yes, but what about food champagnes?
A very lovely young lady and self-confessed hedonist, Cordelia Rosa, asked me if I wanted to try something a little different. Rather excited by what the lovely Cordelia was proposing, I asked what? Exactly?
“Billecart Salmon Brut Sous Bois,” she said.
Mildly disappointed by this answer but still intrigued, I accepted. I’ll try anything once.
Let’s face it. If...
A funny thing happened on the way back to the...
So, I was with a few lovely people at the start of a tour of the Croatian wine district of Istria. It was after midnight in Rovinj and a relatively balmy 16 degrees at the beginning of March.
We had just tasted a lot of interesting Malvasias, some exquisite white truffle oil and met a woman called Dragana.
It was a good 30 to 40 minutes around the bay on foot back to our fancy new hotel, so I...
