A quick plug for an amazing South African tasting in London next week. It’s organized by merchants SWIG, and the details are here. The line-up of wines and winemakers is…
Term starts again, and a tasting at the Perfect Cellar
Holidays are over, and the wine tasting calendar starts again here in London. I was in town for the first tasting in a long time – a small portfolio tasting…
The online future is a social one
I am fortunate that my brief career as a media sort of person has coincided with some of the most dramatic changes in how media is delivered. [Pedants: note…
Aeternitas, a new Syrah from South Africa
Johan Grimbeek is the winemaker at South African winery Kanu. Through top restaurateur Bertus Basson, I managed to get my hands of a bottle of his home brew – it…
Another new English sparkling wine, Digby Fine English
Here’s another new English sparkling wine. It’s cleverly branded, and the winemaker is Dermot Sugrue, a specialist sparkling winemaker who worked for Nyetimber for three years. Dermot is now based…
A lovely, affordable Greek white wine from Hatzidakis
£10 in your pocket, and looking to pop some white wine? You can’t do much better than this. It’s from Santorini: I’ve never been, but apparently the vines are grown…
Some more great value Portuguese wines
Our holiday in the sunny Algarve draws to a close today. Just a few hours of pool action, then a drive back up to Lisbon. One of the highlights for…
More fun in Portugal, and the Portuguese Cloudy Bay
We’ve had some fun this week. On Wednesday, all three families spent the afternoon on boats. The adults went out on a 53 ft Sunseeker, while the kids were on…
Are smartphones bad for our souls?
I have been a smartphone user for three years. I started off with an HTC Desire, because all my techy friends said that Android was the way to go, and…