Wine for your shopping list part II: The Co-op....
The only Co-op store I used to know was in Peacehaven in Sussex, near Brighton. It’s a great big store where time seemingly stood still, in a nice way. I’d go down there during school holidays and we’d...
View ArticleWine for your shopping list part III: Spar....
I’ve been putting off writing this review not really knowing where to start. As my third piece on wines for your shopping list this one is on Spar. Having previously recommended a couple of top bottles...
View ArticleIn the pink....rosé versus the rest
There’s something about rosé wine that divides wine lovers everywhere. It’s a marmite of the wine world because at one end of the scale you’ve got the casual wine drinkers who love it and on the other...
View ArticleThe pink ladies....
Grease is my favourite ever film. Grease #1 of course, #2 should never have been made. I watched it over and over again when I was younger and could probably still recite 80% of the script and 100% of...
View ArticleWine, judge and jury....
Biting off the hand that feeds has been a concern of journalists and editors of traditional media since advertising began. Certainly a lack of wine advertising in newspapers is widely acknowledged for...
View ArticleThe Unpronounceables: Episode ll
Since the rise of Cheryl Cole and Lord Sugar, popularity of the Queen's English has been replaced by all things Geordie and East End. The rise in interest of regionality has transferred to food too;...
View ArticleWe're all going on a summer holiday....
....no more worries for a week or two..... Visions of Sir Paul McCartney at the Olympic velodrome encouraging the crowd to spontaneously burst into chorus after chorus of 'Hey Jude' was painful to...
View ArticleTantrums and trophies at the 2012 Decanter awards
Three of the world’s largest international wine competitions are held in the UK and across the year the wine calendar is divided into a delirium of sample sending, extreme tasting, result announcing...
View ArticleRiesling in wunderland....
When the French release a wine there's fan fair and dancing, price wars and road trips. Take Bordeaux's annual en primeur campaign and Beaujolais Nouveau. Other wine producing countries have similar...
View ArticleNew street wine shop, old ideas...
Since the Olympics and Paralympics lit their last firework there’s been little reason for me to venture out east and it’s made me rather sad. So I was pleased to be invited to a preview night of a new...
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