It was a pretty good week, last week, for me. Mostly because I didn’t have to sit infront of the computer all day long doing mind numbing admin tasks! I actually got outside into the free fresh air (well, as fresh as the air gets in London!) and headed off to wine tastings and meetings …
or Introduction to Food and Wine Pairing A few weeks back I caught up with a friend of mine from my postgrad days. We got chatting about food and he offered to come up to the flat and cook one of his mum’s signatures for a few people. He was going to provide the cooking, …
or An Intro Into Storing and Serving Wine Last weekend I went to a wine show at Lord’s cricket ground hosted by The Three Wine Men, which is the name a collection of notables in the UK wine world (Oz Clarke, Olly Smith, and Tim Aitkin) go by. It was aimed at wine punters/hobbyists, i.e. …
or An Introduction To Tasting Wine Making a tit of yourself in public is something I’m pretty good at. When I was younger I went to a bar with some friends to watch some stand up comedy. His routine was going through the motions when he asked the audience if any was a nervous flyer. …
or Why Does A Bottle Of Wine Cost What It Costs? One half of my family has roots in the Isle of Man. It’s a little island off the north west coast of England, and carries with it a slightly stereotypical trait of personality (apologies in advance to any Manx reading this, but you know …
or The Wine Making Process I remember the first time I went out to a vineyard. It looked out over the Aosta Valley in northern Italy, a full on panoramic view. It was just awesome. First thought I had was how great it’d be to work here! At the time I was just finishing an …
or An Italian Introduction A few years back, I took a few good friends of ours out to my parents’ house for a long weekend. It just nicely coincided with a village festival celebrating the main produce of the area; a wine variety called Barbera. What you do at these festivals is pay 4 euros, …
or How Wine Became A Hobby University was an eye opening experience for me. I was a geeky, socially awkward kid from up north (I say “was”, still am really), but I was determined that this would be a fresh start. So I turned up first day, ready to go, first day of the rest …
