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...
