Last week was the London International Wine Fair and what a fair! I love going to this event. Checking out all the new products, finding new wines, revisting old favorites, talking to producers or just admiring the sleek bottles, artfully arranged, sparkling under the Excel Center lights. Walking into that place, I felt like a kid...
read moreOne of my colleagues, Tom from Fulham, decided to organize a day out in Hyde Park for all off us slogging away in the London shops. Somebody brought a football and an American football but really I was just there for the wine. Even though the sun is still playing hide and seek with us, Wed. was a brilliantly sunny day and the Ch....
read moreRemole by Frescobaldi What to have with dinner tonight is the perennial question. You could go with the old tried and true Aussie something or other or cheap new world red or white but what about Italy? I went to an Italian tasting not long ago and they are coming up in leaps and bounds. So, the other day, when I was staring at the...
read moreIsn’t this a great idea! I was on openwineconsortium.com and stumbled across this on their forum. “Tryvertising” is the new catchphrase making the rounds in marketing land. Wine and tryvertising were made for each other. As a matter of fact, I think you could say that wine came up with the idea first, with cellar...
read moreBeing from sunny California, I never really understood the Beatles’ song, “Here comes the sun” until I moved to England. Now I get it. The sun came out today and it definitely put a spring in my step. Out on the golf course today, I thought, life’s not so bad now, is it? I can’t say the same for S....
read moreAnother cold, rainy day. Sometimes, I think, “wouldn’t it be nice to live somewhere warm and sunny, like Portugal?” Then I could enjoy their vinous offerings all the time. Last time I wrote about my fav whites from the Portugese wine tasting, now I’m doing the reds. Touriga Nacional, Baga, Jaen, Tinto Roriz...
read moreI’ve finally discovered Portuguese wines and what a find!! Forget all those outdated images of sickly sweet Mateus or thin and watery whites, the stuff coming out of Portugal now is the real deal. Being in the trade and poorly paid, I’m always on the lookout for trade tastings. One of our biggest sellers at the moment...
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