I am a regular attendee at The Wine Society (TWS) Press Tastings – they serve a useful double purpose; a chance to find interesting wines to recommend to the world at large … and a shopping list exercise for me too (as a member). I was expecting to have to miss the Spring tasting which [...]
Archive: March 2012
I’m looking for a graphic artist – probably someone familiar with the more modern graphic and explicit comics, that can bring to life a vision I have in my head. This vision concerns the UK wine consumer in 2012 as we look forward to the government’s latest budget announcement in 2 days. (image from term [...]
Croatia is firmly on my radar screen right now. I was bowled over by wines I tasted on the Pacta Connect table at a tasting a few months ago, and wrote about the Croatian wine love affair, and in part thanks to that, I will also be setting out on a trip to Istria (with [...]
This is a rather unusual wine – unusual because of its provenance, the grapes it is made from, and the style of the wine itself. First, the country. This wine is from Hungary. This shouldn’t be a surprising source for regular wines, and many of you will know that Hungary makes some of the world’s [...]
Last night a select group of individuals that combine an interest in wine with the habit of spending a lot of time talking about it on social media, gathered at Quo Vadis. The table groaned under the combined weight of the iPhones and miscellaneous mobile internet paraphernalia of David Lowe (@bigpinots), Natasha Hughes (@londonvino), Simon [...]
