Just spent 5 minutes and 23 second of my life which I will never be able to get back watching a Wine Spectator video on wine service in restaurants. The phrase ‘poncey crap’ does not go far enough to describing quite how horrible it was. I’m not going to go […]
Simon
Not sure how they’ve managed to do it but Majestic has got hold of a parcel of wines from four Constellation wineries – Bay of Fires in Tasmania, Houghton in Western Australia, Ravenswood in California and Flagstone in South Africa – and are selling them at prices that will doubtless […]
Fill yer boots – New World madness at Majestic
There is wine packaging and then there is wine packaging – for some of the most inspired, take a look here.
Labelled with love
Just added notes on six sparkling wines to the First Taste pages here. Above is a pic of the corks from a couple of the Champagnes – you can tell that the Tsarine has had extra bottle age since disgorging (removing the yeast sediment left from the second fermentation in […]
Six fizzes
a a About ten years ago, I went to South Australia as a guest international judge at the McLaren Vale wine show. There are those who criticise the Australian show system, but as anyone who’s been involved in it will tell you, a) it’s great fun, b) it’s hard work, […]
High Noon
I’ve done posts in the last couple of months whose titles featured cricket and Leonard Cohen, and ended up with Twitter followers from devotees of those two rather different fields. So I thought I’d pack some more non-wine topics into the title of this one and see if the same […]