I’m in Heathrow Terminal 1, off on some more travels. Just a brief four day trip this time, to Portugal and Spain visiting a number of wineries I’ve not been…
A month after migrating servers, and some decent web stats
It has been a month since I shifted wineanorak.com from its old server to a new one – with decent bandwith allowance and proper webstat reporting (the last one was…
Banning salt in New York: the implications for restaurants
Interesting article in The Independent about the proposed bill to ban the use of salt in the kitchens of New York’s restaurants. The motivation? To reduce the salt consumption of…
Lambing live
Here in the Goode household we’ve been watching BBC2’s Lambing Live, a series of programs screened live, with some prerecorded material, at 8 pm every evening this week. It follows…
Tesco press tasting and filing my US tax return at the embassy
The Tesco press tasting was held today, on a fruit day (according the biodynamic calendar). The wines tasted pretty good, and I found plenty that will end up in my…
Recently on the main wineanorak site
Some meaty stuff on the main wineanorak.com site of late: AA Badenhorst Family Wines: reviewing Adi Badenhorst’s impressive Swartland wines Pierre Morey/Morey Blanc: part 3 of my report on a…
Study linking off-licences to violent neighbourhoods – flawed conclusions?
There’s a news item on The Drinks Business website reporting a study in the USA, presented at the AAAS meeting (one of the USA’s most important cross-disciplinary scientific conferences) showing…
Hester’s 40th, Fabrice and an imperial of Sauternes
Just back from my younger sister Hester’s 40th celebrations, held in a marquee in the gardens of her home in Gerrards Cross. Brother-in-law William had secured the services of star…
Wine tasters invade a scientific research community
Interesting side-story on the much-tweeted SITT tasting today. The wine social media community – me included – used the #SITT twitter hash tag without testing it first. The result is…