Wine Events, Wine Education, Journalist
McGuigan has consistently won many awards. Winemaker Neil McGuigan made history by being the first person to be named world’s best winemaker in three out of four years. John Torode has joined forces with McGuigan to create an exclusive recipe collection. I tried this wine with green curry barbecue chicken.
Wine review: McGuigan Classic Semillon Blanc 2012 Read More »
SOME people can’t stand Mother’s Day. I mean they love their mum, but they can’t stand leaving the house for the so-called “treat”. Over-booked restaurants, under-cooked food and poor old mum trying to pretend it’s the best time she‘s had since the grand final of The X Factor. The alternative is staying in – cook
Mother’s Day wine: Choices for mum’s special day Read More »
THERE are two things I always do as the seasons tick by. One is to proffer a “pinch and a punch, first of the month”, to my pal Jamie; the second is to text my daughter whenI see my first lambs in a field. The latter went like this. You thought I’d made it up
Herald change in seasons with quartet of New Zealand wines Read More »
JOHN TORODE is now one of this country’s most popular celebrity chefs. Only last week he launched his new cookery programme Australia. But he also comes from a part of Australia which is the oldest wine-making region on that vast continent, the Hunter Valley. So it should come as no surprise that he has been
John Torode launches recipe collection with McGuigan Wines Read More »
Celebrity chef and Masterchef presenter John Torode has created an exclusive recipe collection alongside McGuigan Wines, with winemaker Neil McGuigan offering wine pairing suggestions. To mark the collection, John Torode answered some of my questions about wine and food. The questions and answers ….
Celebrity chef John Torode speaks of his love for food and wine Read More »
I watched a wine-tasting DVD on a school night – a night when I was determined not to open a bottle of wine. Just five minutes into the Essential Guide to Wine Tasting, backbone like a jellyfish, I wandered into the Place Where My Wine Is Kept, grabbed a bottle, glass, corkscrew, and poured. A big
The Essential Guide to Wine Tasting video drives me to drink Read More »
IT’S Fairtrade Fortnight. I want to embrace wines which carry the Fairtrade stamp of approval and are born out of such a worthy cause; but I do so with mixed results. The Fairtrade Foundation (www.fairtrade.org.uk) explains it has several missions; “better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and
Wine Press: Fairtrade Fortnight and a sparkling nod to the Oscars Read More »
Shortlist is a range of individually numbered and limited release wines from McGuigan. The small print: Adelaide Hills – 13% abv – Grape: chardonnay – Buy: Tesco online – Price: £15 – screwcap – 2011 – Tasted Feb 23 2014 – Drink in 5 years of vintage Food matches Creamy pasta, poultry dishes, shellfish,
Wine review: McGuigan Shortlist Chardonnay, 2011, Adelaide Hills Read More »
Pongracz Sparkling Rosé In my glass: A fine bubble tinkles away after the excited pouring fizz dies down. There’s fresh strawberries, strawberry shortcake, brioche and rhubarb crumble on the nose; sweet sultanas too. Fresh red fruits and strawberries bedazzle on the tastebuds as a good balanced acidity comes along to woosh everything along. As a
In my glass: Pongracz Sparkling Rosé wine review Read More »