What if you were set loose on a trade tasting with 1000’s of wines to try and you had to pick just 10 to put on your winelist? How do you do it? You could go the old boring route and try all those wines or you could recruit a bunch of willing tasters to pick those wines for you. Which is exactly what Naked Wines did at the...
read moreBack in February I had a guilty pleasures dinner at my house with some of my foodie blogger friends. We had so much fun that we decided to do it again. Bibendum Dan (aka The Boy) and I got to chatting about what wines we should bring along. At first we had visions of Blue Nun and pricy claret but then Dan was hit by inspiration...
read moreBerry Brothers & Rudd, only the oldest wine merchant in the world, wine purveyor to The Queen, rumoured to have labrynthine cellars that stretch from St. James to Buckingham Palace – Has joined the twitterati. Not only have they joined the twitterati @winematters , they even did a Twitter Taste live from said cellars...
read moreCheers! Salut! Salud! Tchin tchin! and now you can add… Trinch! I came across Trinch! the other day. What are it’s origins you might be asking? Well, since you asked, the origins of the word come from Old French, “trinquer”, or “toast” in English, which was corrupted into… tchin, tchin....
read moreTinta de Toro. Wine of the Bull? Is that like the Hungarian wine, Bull’s blood? The origins of the name may be lost in the mists of time but I can tell you that tinta de toro is a local varietal found in the western half of Spain, near the town of Zamora. It’s thought that the varietal is an adaptation of that...
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