So last week I headed down to this Rhone touch exhibition. As I said yesterday it was run by the Rhone wine marketing board in partnership with Central Saint Martins Art School. As much as having a great time and seeing all the cool stuff the students had come up with, it was also about …
Right so all the social media guff is out of the way for the week, we can get back onto the main business of talking about wine, and in this post food! Last weekend I met up with a mate of mine from my uni days up in Edinburgh. It was one of those that …
Getting Schooled In Pakistani Food With A Belting Chicken Korma Read More »
So I’ll be honest here. Last week kind of fell apart a little bit due to my complete lack of forward planning, so apologies for firstly not posting this until the middle of Week 18. Also sorry for the…actually I’m going to stop there, look it wasn’t the most efficient of weeks, but I tried …
I’m sat here writing this post from the beautiful hills of Piemonte, where I’ve managed to slope off to for the long weekend. One slight issue with this is the complete impossibility of getting hold of a bottle of French Viognier out here. Well never fear, I planned ahead and did all my tasting in …
Well as much as I say “new favourites”, it has been around a long time, it’s just that it’s always been such a pain for growers to get it right that other grapes were always a bit more commercially viable for those making it, and those drinking it. Luckily for all concerned that’s beginning to …
#NWTW Week 17: Viognier – One of The Wine World’s New Favourites Read More »
As a British kid growing up in the 1980s, I’m fairly familiar with the South of France. I’ve got all these memories of family holidays down at campsites on the coast. Most of these memories revolve around my poor dad having to drive us from Liverpool to Perpignan via the Dover to Calais crossing. Three …
#NWTW Week 17: Sunning Grapes in the South of France Read More »
Another week and another wine for me that I’m not really used to drinking much of. Viognier. It’s getting more and more popular out there in wine world as more hot areas are being planted. Hot areas are what Viognier needs to ripen properly, so that despite the low yields (not many grapes are grown …
