How would you rather learn about wine? With technical ratings and jargon? With random adjectives? Or how about well-crafted characters and stories that bring out the characteristic aspects of individual grapes and wines to help create a meaningful mental image of the wine?
Salt & Old Vines: Book Review
If you simply love drinking wine, like me, then this book should scare you away from ever wanting to make wine, yet make you want to drink it more, … but then simply drinking it may not be enough for you.
Taking the wrong Stairway to Heaven
I asked the staff in my local record shop for “the album with ‘Stairway to Heaven’ on it”. I was never sure whether it was their stupidity, or actual malice, which resulted in me going home with a copy of Neil Sedaka’s Greatest Hits
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I was in Maplin the other day, buying some essentials, and I took my kids with me.
They went exploring, as kids do, and discovered...
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An awesome science book for Dads
Learning is not something that only happens at school, and it isn’t only for kids.
On yer bike, and collect your prize
She won! I'm so very proud of my daughter right now.
Back in January, I mentioned that my daughter had taken part in...
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Sommelier and the Storybook
Is this the only song ever about a conversation with a sommelier? Song and lyrics to Nekta’s Sommelier