Motivations are often mixed. We are people, after all, and people do people stuff. Despite the difficulty in understanding our own motivational state, I think the motivation behind blog posts and tweets…
A great day of rugby and Rhone wines
Continuing a rather sporty weekend, on Saturday I was a guest of InterRhone at the Twickenham double header. Two games of premiership rugby and a feed, with good company and…
A brilliant red for under £6
I’m always delighted to be able to find a wine that ROCKS for very little money. And here is one such wine. I tried a sample on Thursday, and returned…
Some nice wine at the cricket
Great day out at the Oval yesterday, to watch the one day international between South Africa and England. I was with Justin Howard Sneyd of Laithwaites, and we were sitting…
Côte Rôtie, one of my great passions
I often get asked the impossible question. What is your favourite wine? For a wine professional, you can’t really afford to have a favourite. Let’s face it, the world of…
Pineau d’Aunis rocks!
Drinking a lovely, bright, elegant, fresh red from the Loire. It’s a varietal Pineau d’Aunis, and it’s one of those wines that is both non-serious and drinkable, and yet also…
Weekend in the country, and three rich whites: Chile, South Africa and France
The long bank holiday weekend provided an ideal opportunity for a family get together. Remarkably, we managed to find a house big enough to take 15 on budget in the…
A really good New Zealand Syrah, tasted on video
One of those funny clip things where I taste a wine on video. In this case it is the rather good Legacy Series Syrah 2009 from Vidal in New Zealand’s…
At the Whalley Wine Shop
On Friday I drove up to Whalley, in Lancashire, to take part in a tasting hosted by the Whalley Wine Shop, titled ‘The Night of 100 Wines’. It was my…