No, it’s not the Association of Sad Drunk Winos, it’s the Association of Small Direct Wine Merchants. And if you want to quiz the members as to why the M for Merchants bit isn’t in the acronym, you’ll find some of them showing off their wines at Canons Ashby in […]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Some people have been in touch since I transferred the blog to the new site saying that while they liked the content, there weren’t enough pictures. So here’s a picture to keep them happy. Yes, I know, it’s a picture of a piece of carpet, what’s that got to do […]
The Stains Massive
Just gathered together all the posts I did from last year’s experiment of tasting only major wine brands for a three-week period – was it the liquid form of a sound system that only plays Kenny G, or was it a pleasant surprise? To find out, follow the link on […]
The bland leading the bland
“It is currently not obvious to observers and managers caught up by the damage of change that Australia has just finished two decades of branded commodity wine growth to dominance and inevitable decline and is now entering the decades of Australian wine emergence. As the trauma recedes that will become […]
Australia down and out? Don’t you believe it…
It’s 2 in the morning and I’m still up. Why? Partly because I’ve had a great and stimulating day. It began with a talk from a Kiwi called Bob Franklyn that touched on many things, but that gave major prods about what it means to be community. Now whether we […]
Domaine Saparale & Leonard Cohen
First of all thanks to Graeme Bell (tweet him here) for the link to the great pics of Manhattanhenge. Yes, Manhattanhenge, click here for more. Would be great to be able to get similar pics in the Pennines, but for two things – the sun never shines and the roads […]