NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO: RSBC’s Winefold Challenge – Part 3
The halfway point for our Youtube videos doing RSBC’s winefold challenge has us tackling wines 3 and 4, including one in particular that stumps us both!
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NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO: RSBC Winefold Challenge – Part 2
So the blindfolds are on, and the first two wines are poured. Are we even going to be able to find where the glasses are??
NEW ON YOUTUBE: RSBC’s #WINEFOLD CHALLENGE – Part One
I noticed the other day on Twitter that the RSBC were running this thing called a WineFold challenge to help raise money and awareness for the cause. The RSBC is the Royal Society for Blind Children, and they’re using wine tasting parties to get everyone raising money and awareness for kids who are born blind …
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Free Aussie Wine Tasting? Where Do I Sign?!
In a few days time it’s Australia Day. Well in exactly three weeks actually, and Aussies across the world will be celebrating the arrival of those first few convict ships over to Sydney in 1788. It’s going to be standing room only at the Walkabout on Embankment I can tell you. It’s also a great …
BLESSED ARE THE CHEESEMAKERS
French wine laws are now ridiculous expansive. Most punters who pick up a bottle of French wine at a shop will look at the whether the Chateau on the label looks nice and decide on that rather than get tangled in the mire of labeling terms jumbled all over the shop. But there is a …
HOW DO YOU TASTE WINE WHEN MAN FLU STRIKES?
Only half the world will ever understand the crippling effect of Man Flu. It just takes you down, from that peak of physical fitness that us fellas live our lives with, down to sniveling wrecks unable to drag ourselves out of bed. Sadly there are only two known cures, regular moaning your arse off and …
A nice twist on how to blend a wine from a Kiwi legend
This week I headed down to Thames for a wine dinner that UK wine agents, Hatch Mansfield, were putting on. Gordon Russell was over from the Esk Valley vineyards in Hawkes Bay in New Zealand. I don’t get lucky enough to drink much wine from there that often, so it was a real treat for …
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When Places Just Smash All Your Expectations!
I’m off on my travels at the minute. I’ve got a week in Northern Italy to get some much needed landscaping done, and then as soon as we drive back to the UK I fly off to Primeur week with all the other Millesima blog award winners. So yesterday and the day before we headed …
Convincing Myself About Champagne
I’ve struggled with Champagne in the past. Maybe it’s cos I’m a penny pinching northerner? Fair enough, but for years the idea of paying £30+ for a bottle of entry level bubbles has never made sense. That’s two bottles of really good Cava or Crémant that!
Trying To Stick To The 3:4 Plan
I had a mini rant a few weeks back about Dry January. From what I can work out it’s just a bunch of self-righteous buggers who haven’t learned to drink in moderation trying to prove to themselves they can do it. If they get straight back on it in February without changing their habits then …