Whoops!! Forgot to post one yesterday, so here’s a two for the price of one. Finishing up our International Sherry Week videos, we’ve got Episode 4 on the sweet sherries, and Episode 5 on the easiest Sherry Cocktail imaginable. Enjoy, and get drinking more sherry!!
Time for something big and brown for our International Sherry Week videos. I’m attacking some op drawer Oloroso, and Amelia’s grappling with her Darwinian failure; Amontillado. Keep watching for a top tip from Javier Hidalgo’s mum!
Moving swiftly along for International Sherry Week, myself and Amelia head to the lighter styles of sherry with a look at Fino and Manzanilla. Honestly, they’re so much much tastier than it sounds!! 🙂
As part of International Sherry Week (6th to the 13th November) I’ve got a few videos I’ve done with the wonderful Miss Amelia Singer all about Sherry for anyone getting into it for the first time. So here’s part one, a brief look at what Sherry is. Hopefully you’ll all rush out to the shops …
Any wine geek worth their salt loves a good barrel room. Ok, going on trip after trip wandering round looking at rows of neatly packed new barrels can get a bit tiresome after a while, but it’s the smell of the place and knowledge that all that lovely liquid is ageing away beautifully under the …
I went on holiday, years ago, to Sardinia. For one reason or another we spent the whole time driving round the island trying to “do Sardinia” in a week. Pinging it from Cagliari to San Pietro, up to Alghero, and across to Porto Cervo. I spent more time in the car than outside. And on …
Jura’s not a wine region of France that I’d expect many (non-wine-geek) people of heard of, let alone know much about their wines. It’s pretty small, at only about half the size of Chablis in Burgundy. But with 5 different grape varieties producing in excess of 25 genuinely distinct styles of wine, it’s definitely one …
Port producers are pretty terrified of turning into the next Sherry. The harsh truth of that is that Sherry producers, rather infamously, let their drinkers die on them. A new generation of drinkers doesn’t know what proper Fino sherry is, let alone how to drink it properly. So they’re having to invent new ways to …
Wine making is full of old school traditions. Some are now on their way out as practicality, time, and – let’s be fair – hygiene have all had their say. But one tradition that remains in the production of some Port wines is grape treading. I’ve always wanted to have a go, and a couple …
One of the first things you’re told when you’re sat in your lecture room at WSET (wine exam board) HQ, eagerly waiting to tackle Port, is that most people in the UK drink it wrong. I’m not saying that they miss their mouth and tip it down their shirts, or that they stand on their …
