Wine Events, Wine Education, Journalist
Is Skinny Prosecco worth all the fuss? Before we go any further let me say that I love fizz. I love cheap fizz expensive fizz free fizz white fizz pink fizz even red fizz. Fizz floats my boat. There. I love fizz. But I don’t like Skinny Prosecco. My friends don’t like it. I know this […]
Here’s a festive gin cocktail with brussels sprouts. Some strange drinks recipes drop into my email box and I ignore many of them. But as this is a) gin and I like gin and b) it includes sprouts and I’m in the minority of the population who likes sprouts and c) prosecco – is in there
A festive gin cocktail with Brussels sprouts. Yes, you read that right. Read More »
Wine Advent Calendar December 8th: Extra Special Louis Bernard Premier Cru Champagne It’s my daughter’s birthday today which calls for FIZZ. I know it’s Thursday but I can’t think of a better excuse. Look, tomorrow’s Friday so I’ll do fizz again. That’s a good excuse too. I’m coming down from a couple of weeks of
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Sometimes I just want to give wine a hug. A huge squeezy one – they’re not very good on giving hugs back but they’re quite good at toe tingles. I remember the day I tried this wine. It had been Proper Horrible on two counts = the weather and feeling miserable. I’d started a diet but
I’ve just got home after walking up to the beach with the Moo and back home past Crosby marina. I was kicking myself I didn’t have my phone with me to take a photograph as the sunset across the sea was amazing – as usual. There’s nothing quite like it when the weather is right
I’m very lucky in lots of ways. I have nice friends who sometimes ask me to join them at tastings of delicious alcoholic things poured into glasses. I’m generally in a rush to get there and not in a rush to leave. Pals asked me to meet them at Dace Tearooms in Crosby for a gin tasting.
Gin tasting is right up my street. And I needed help getting back. Read More »
Camper Vin is one of those things you wish you’d thought of first. I spend many a summer’s day in a wet field in a rain-battered caravan. It’s no wonder then that Camper Vin – a box of wine new on our shelves – caught my eye. I’ve often laboured long and hard – gritting
Camper Vin is wine for campers and festival-goers. But what’s it like? Read More »
I write about wine and other drinkies in a handful of regional UK newspapers; I share my thoughts here on One Foot in the Grapes. Here’s three picks from the latest Lidl Wine Cellar collection which was released at the beginning of August. Lidl Wine Cellar: A rioja Soligamar Rioja Reserva 2011 (14% abv £8.99) This is
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I’ve been in and around for ages on this interwebby thing. Problem is, now I think about it, it appears I have a split personality. Claretsgirl and being a football fan or One Foot in the Grapes and enjoying wine (errrmmm quite a bit) or Jane Clare and both? Mmm. I’m all three – but can I be all of these
Claretsgirl, wine, football, and a split personality Read More »