Portugal

I’ve got aching upper arm muscles today. Was it a strenuous boxing work out on Wii Fit? A marathon Swingball session in the garden with kids? Or was it having to manhandle two wine bottles that were so heavy that they made your wrists wobble even when they were empty? […]

Big Bottle Battle

August 19, 2009 by Simon

Not sure what I’ll be cooking tonight, but it won’t be a patch on the super Portuguese Gourmet Dinner Jill & I tucked into at the one-starred Harrow in Little Bedwyn near Marlborough on Wednesday evening. Owner/chef Roger Jones is one of those people whose enthusiasm for wine has developed […]

A wonderful evening in the Portuguese town of Little Bedwyn

July 24, 2009 by Simon

Prompted by a recent Facebook posting by sommelier Joseph de Blasi about how people who go wine tasting while wearing their favorite cologne “don’t get it”, I’m resurrecting a post from earlier this year that some of the newer readers may have missed… ——————————————— Anyone who’s been to more than […]

Goût de terror (yes, I mean terror)

July 21, 2009 by Simon

I’m doing a tasting this evening for the Saddleworth Wine Circle. It’s an organisation that’s evolved out of a night school class I went to when I first got interested in wine in the late 1980s, and there are still a number of the members who still go from that […]