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‘Literally cannot stop thinking about making rum with the marrow bestowed upon me…’ So ran a tweet this afternoon from @foodstories (aka Helen Graves). And it took me back several years to Chester Street in Oxford, where I lived with several others in a house opposite a pub called the […]

Marrow Rum

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Just had this photo through from the folk at Villa Maria, along with a copy of their 2009 Harvest Report (it’s here), showing the damage that working a vintage can wreak on your mitts. I’ve never actually worked in a winery but I did end up with similar coloured hands […]

Hands to the pump

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You may know that for several years I’ve been writing a column called First Taste, initially in WINE Magazine, which morphed into Wine International, then Wine & Spirit and finally Harpers Wine & Spirit. The current publishers, William Reed, have decided to stop the column and the last instalment will […]

First Taste

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Just saw that Jamie Goode has described a Californian Sangiovese on Facebook as ‘quite good’. Actually, I got that wrong, the term he used was was ‘actually quite good’. And then when I looked for it on his blog, I found that this was very much a positive comment (it’s […]

When ‘good’ isn’t good enough…

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