An Independent View of The Great Sherry Festival
My thoughts, opinions and reaction to The Great Sherry Festival.
Read more...My thoughts, opinions and reaction to The Great Sherry Festival.
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Read more...The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has been around for a decade short of 200 years. Its name evokes wood panelled board rooms and gentlemanly discussions more than the world of Google and iPhone apps.
Read more...At the beginning of October I was very fortunate to have been part of a group invited to participate in what has been named a "Gastronomy Experience" with the Zonin Group. The journey consisted of a 3-day trip around the beautiful landscape of Tuscany combining visits to wineries as well as producers of different foods of the region. To be precisely the plan was to have a "meat day", a "fish day" and end up the trip with a "chocolate day" (all wine matched, of course).
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Read more...I took the time to catch up with an old friend last night. It says a lot about the state of my social calendar that the friend in question was a vinous one rather than a living, breathing human being.
Read more...Having watched Oz Clarke quite rightly inform the nation of the nonsensical 'half price' wine offers in supermarkets on the recent BBC programme Watchdog, I asked myself a couple of questions; 'Who actually buys these 'half price' wines?' and 'Do they really think they are getting a bargain?'
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Read more...Harpers' clarion call to support Lebanese wines in September was heeded by at least one retailer. Slurp in Banbury is promoting 30 Lebanese wines from five producers: Massaya, Chateau Ksara, Domaines des Tourelles, the EU-backed Coteaux Heliopolis and of course the mighty Chateau Musar.
Read more...It all started at the beginning of August. My parents were coming to visit me from Brazil after five long years and we had a hectic schedule ahead of us: Edinburgh, Tarbert, Islay, London,Bratislava, Vienna, Salzburg, Paris and then back to London again. And that was all to happen squeezed into a 2-weeks program that me and my wife put together. At the end of the day, it was only their second visit to Europe, they might as well see lots of it.
Read more...Lisa Johnston is a wine educator, writer and wine business consultant who has a fascination for wine - in the vineyard, in the bottle and in the glass. An avid traveller, her plan is to visit every wine region in the world. On her blog, she shares the best finds and thanks to the ever changing nature of the subject at hand - this may take a very very long time. See more of Lisa's work on www.winemuse.com.au
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