It would have been scurrilous for an English wine enthusiast (or ‘vinthusiast’ even) not to enthuse about English wine from time to time! So, here goes … I haven’t really paid English wine (by which I mean both wine made from grapes grown in...
As promised in my earlier post, Bourgogne, this is the first of a few posts that will focus on individual vineyards / producers. During our visit to Burgundy last autumn we were keen not only to taste wines at the vineyards, but also to gain some insight into the...
So last night I decided to undertake my next wine tasting exercise for my WSET2 studies. We were told to try a new world oaked chardonnay from a well known producer and we then had to provide tasting notes on the same. I’m an ‘old world’ kind of a...
As we start to plan the detail of our next trip to Burgundy (or more precisely “Bourgogne”) I couldn’t help looking back at some of the lovely memories from previous trips. Last autumn we spent a few days in Puligny Montrachet, and another day...
So, yesterday was the start of me getting a proper ‘wine education’! A week after attending a relaxed and informal day at Berry Bros last weekend, tasting wine and indulging in a rather glorious lunch, yesterday I went back to school there. WSET school to...
Tuscany is where ‘my journey’ really began and just a few weeks ago, in May, we visited Florence for a few days and took the opportunity to venture into the surrounding countryside of Chianti and indulged our burgeoning passion for touring vineyards and...
So this weekend we spoiled ourselves a little and enjoyed a day of wine tasting with a wine paired lunch at Berry Bros & Rudd. We have a tendency to favour certain styles of wine / grape varieties and we recognise that there is a danger in becoming too closed...
Enthused by our very enjoyable visit to Gambino Vini I couldn’t quite settle to the prospect of spending the following day at the beach (as had been agreed with everyone!). Some years ago I watched the BBC series, “Sicily Unpacked”, featuring Andrew...
I had the very good fortune to take a trip to Sicily recently and couldn’t resist visiting a couple of vineyards to find out a little bit more about Sicilian winemaking which has experienced something of a renaissance in recent years. It is often thought that...
So, this is how it all began… my growing interest in wine, beyond just indiscriminately coiffing it on a daily basis! July 2014, a solo trip to Tuscany to immerse myself in vineyards, barrels, tasting and, more than anything, thinking just a little bit harder...
