Working on the Douro film tonight with Dave Fuller, who brought round a couple of beers from The Kernel brewery. They’re probably the UK’s most highly regarded craft ale producer…
Controlling the wine media
I was alerted by an Eric Asimov tweet to an article in the New York Times about the growing tendency of interview subjects insisting on approving quotes before publication. This…
Recently on the main wineanorak.com site
For the benefit of those who just read my blog, a pointer to some recent articles on the main wineanorak.com site. Pictured above: the beautiful Haskell vineyards in the Helderberg,…
Motivation matters in blogging and social media
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…
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…
Memory and wine
I have done a lot of driving over the last two days. It has meant a lot of Radio 4 listening, interspersed with CDs. Today I heard a program on…
A pointer to some of my longer blog posts
Little and often is how I like to do my blog. It’s because that’s what I like when I visit a blog: I don’t want to read through a 1000…
The joys of camping
Got back from our camping holiday in Somerset, which involved five teenagers (two of ours plus friends) and lots of rain, as well as a bit of sunshine. Because we…
Kadarka and Kekfrankos, two very nice Hungarian reds from Grof Buttler
Ever since I judged at the Pannon Wine Awards in May, I’ve had an appetite for Hungarian wines. Two varieties, in particular, have caught my attention. The elegant, Pinot Noir…