Popped into Waitrose yesterday and came away with some wine from their 25% off six promotion, which has a couple of days still to run. One of the wines I…
The next London Gastronomy Seminar: meat cookery and sous vide
A plug for the next London Gastronomy Seminar, which is on meat cookery and sous vide. Westminster Kingsway College, Victoria Centre, Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PD 22nd June, 6.30pm, duration:…
Recently on the main wineanorak site…
Some recent additions to the main wineanorak.com site: Framingham: unsung heroes from New Zealand’s Marlborough region Muhr-van der Niepoort: Austria’s best red wines? AA Panevino: remarkable natural wines from Sicily…
Real time tasting of a natural wine
It’s Friday evening. After a cloudy, cool day we are being treated to a bright, warm-ish summer’s evening, and so I am sitting outside, glass in hand, blogging before I…
A chance to taste the Gold medal-winning wines from the IWC
On 30th June at Lord’s cricket ground there’s a nice chance to taste many of the gold medal-winning wines from this year’s International Wine Challenge. The IWC is proud to…
A remarkable natural Crozes Hermitage
This is one of the most drinkable wines in the universe. It’s a natural Crozes Hermitage made without any additions, and it’s simply beautiful. It’s not terribly profound, but it…
Video: making Port, traditional and modern approaches
Making Port wine: traditional and modern approaches from Jamie Goode on Vimeo.
Video: Jamie Goode in the Douro
A new video. It’s a sort of hybrid between my scenic vineyard pieces and my pieces to camera. I’ve been trying to improve the quality of these videos without making…
Tio Pepe Fino ‘En Rama’ – we like!
This is fantastic. It’s a special bottling of Gonzalez Byas’ Tio Pepe Fino Sherry, taken from the cask when the flor (the layer of yeast cells growing on the surface…