Carrying on the review of my year in Pictures, we’re beginning part 2 in late March: And late March is Prowein time. It’s a hectic but fun few days in…
2017 in pictures (1)
Time to take a look back on 2017. Quite a year. I’ll do this in chunks, beginning with January to mid-March. After a quiet early January it was off to…
A mixed case of whites from The Wine Society
Just been looking through my notes from the recent tasting put on by The Wine Society, which is one of the very best places to buy wine in the UK….
My birthday bash with lovely wines and even lovelier people
I had a big birthday recently. I’m not going to bore you with some intense post on time, ageing and pseudo-profound thoughts on how age brings more than it takes…
I have another new phone – this time, it’s love
We’re so used to our smart phones that it’s hard to imagine what we’d do without them, and it’s hard to remember what it was like to have really terrible…
Château Pichon Baron 2013
Recently I was lucky to be able to taste all the Pichon Barons from the current era, 2001 until 2014. They were lovely wines, but one was missing: the 2013….
Some thoughts on Minimum Unit Pricing of booze
Big news in the drinks trade yesterday, although this is less relevant to readers of this blog: Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) of booze has been ruled legal, and Scotland are…
Back at the IWC for some more wine judging
It’s Tranche 1 of the 2018 International Wine Challenge this week. [In case you are wondering why it’s 2018, not 2017, a couple of years ago an extra week’s judging…
Wine writing is drowning
Wine writing is in its death throes, and there’s not much that can be done about it. [If it’s not already dead, that is.] Why? It is because it is…