Wine Events, Wine Education, Journalist
The Raise a Glass feature is published in several UK regional newspapers every week. Here’s a look at Vouvray wine: What is it and what does it taste like There are some wines which are a treat for the senses. Just read these aromas and flavour descriptions: Orange blossom, vanilla, sweet pea, dried citrus, wet […]
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Those wine labels are key to our buying habits (I’ve said many a time) and Aldi has hit on a canny marketing idea to draw us in to a new range of wines. If you see “chicken” or “lamb” or “pizza” shouting at you in italics from the retailer’s wine aisles it is because the
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’ve been tinkering with chenin blanc in the last few days. It just came over me; I thought I’d have a tinker and here we are. I don’t mean I wanted to change the structure of its molecules, or mess with its DNA; but just, you know, tinker. It’s another of those Old World grapes
Wine Press: Chenin blanc, a grape with its heart in the Old World Read More »
THESE fair islands of ours have been pretty hopeless in the World Cup. England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales. Are we there or thereabouts in the final stages? Are we heck. Though it shouldn’t stop us settling down to watch the World Cup Final with a glass or two of vino. The eventual arrival of the World Cup
World Cup gives wine-loving girlies an excuse to go Brazil nuts Read More »