Wine Events, Wine Education, Journalist
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
Lidl Wine Cellar: Three wine selections from the 2016 autumn release Read More »
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 »
This is the first time I’ve entered the Monthly Wine Writing Challenge. The theme Solitude was chosen by last month’s winner Traveling Wine Chick. That was TWC’s prize, to pick the next theme. Perhaps I‘ve wandered outside the “wine writing” ethos; I might be thrown out, tripping over empty wine bottles on the way. But in my defence M’lud,
Monthly Wine Writing Challenge: Solitude (and thinking) Read More »
There’s a new gin on the block, Spitfire Heritage Gin. Yeh, right, you say. There’s new gins created every day. A butterfly flutters its wings somewhere in the world and lo! there’s a new gin. There’s certainly wings involved in this new single estate botanical gin as it is inspired by the wartime terrier of the skies
Spitfire Heritage Gin takes spirit of icon to soar to new heights Read More »
You’ve got to admire someone who follows their dream. A few years ago Gary Adlen was on a business trip and found himself in a New York bar which not only served food, but also had its own deli. He dreamed of doing the same in his home town of Liverpool – and now he has, together
Bretta & Co wine tasting: My picks of the reds and whites Read More »