Wine Events, Wine Education, Journalist
We’re very fond of gadgets in our house. For several months we had a plastic electronic rabbit – behave – which sat on the sideboard and wiggled its ears when anyone sent us an email. He was also tuned in to the news headlines and recited them. He had to go. It was electronic bunny overkill […]
Your Valentine may love a new jacket with their Champagne Read More »
HAPPY New Year. Your resolution was to stop drinking for a month? And you gave in eerrm … about 8pm last night? Never mind. Change that 2013 resolution to exploring the world of wine. Don’t stick to what you know – that same bottle on the same shelf – but ring the changes. I asked
Start off New Year by stepping out of wine comfort zones Read More »
I’M TRYING ever so hard not to become a wine snob – but I might be failing miserably. I’ve been writing a column for the Liverpool Daily Post for just a year, and I simply want to enthuse others without becoming a bloomin’ know-it-all in the process. No airy fairy nonsensical comments from me –
I don’t want to be a wine snob, I just want choices Read More »
Sauvignon blanc. I love it. Now and again there’s some pain I put myself through to write about wine (let alone being stabbed by corkscrews). Tasting extraordinary 2012 sauvignon blancs has certainly not been one of those occasions. Let’s start with a new selection from the Wine Society. It has packaged a New Zealand sauvignon
Sauvignon blanc choices for your must-drink list Read More »
ONE MAN’S nectar is another man’s poison. That may be a saying or perhaps I made it up. When it comes down to enjoying wine – and I’ve said it here before – the bottom line is personal taste. Who knows how much money is spent by Mrs Bloggs buying a wine her husband Joe
How the Morrisons wine taste test tool can help your choices Read More »
IT’S not most people’s average choice when they find themselves in the wine aisle, but with Christmas looming on the horizon, some of us will be contemplating buying a dessert wine. This week – with help from a couple of tasting elves – I explore the sweet wine world some never consider. There’s a couple
WE’RE funny, aren’t we, people. We can make decisions based on preconceived ideas; decisions based on perceptions, not fact. Take Aldi wine. Remember that advertising slogan “it is a Skoda honest” …. well how about, “it is from Aldi, honest”. Maybe Aldi is the retail equivalent of Skoda; in the public’s mindset it may not
The Aldi wine team takes the game up to another level Read More »
HOLD your hand up (not the one holding the wine glass) if you ever owned an empty Mateus bottle and created a classy, but functional, living room talking point by sticking a candle in it. Sadly, I did. It’s now 70 years since Fernando van Zeller Guedes launched Mateus wine and presented it in those
New design for iconic Mateus bottle as it marks 70th anniversary Read More »
Chardonnay. The most popular grape variety in the world. To borrow a theme from another beverage, if chardonnay made women, they would be as classy and steely-cool as Lauren Bacall; or as honeyed, rounded and voluptuously-complex as Marilyn Monroe; or maybe satin-lip frothy, but pin-bright and sparkling with a Grace Kelly-like elegance; or perhaps as
A celebration of the Chardonnay grape’s many personalities Read More »