Brazil, or for those of a Latino bent Brasil. Land of carnival, poetic football and strange body hair arrangements. Winewise, it’s so far not made the same degree of splash as its fellow South Americans Chile and Argentina. Even Uruguayan wines are easier to track down. But Pele’s homeland offers […]
Simon
‘Would your mum like this?’ Jill’s mum is lovely, but where wine is concerned, she doesn’t stray too far beyond the safe haven of cheap new World Chardonnay. But New World Chardonnay isn’t what it was. Where once it could be caricatured as the juice from tinned fruit cocktail (the […]
Coo-ee Pouilly
The Alexei Sayle line is, ‘Is it me, or is it bald, fat and Scouse in here?’ The Simon Woods line is, ‘Is it me, or are people missing the point in giving info on wines to normal people?’ Let’s transfer a typical spiel into a different genre… ‘This hand-crafted […]
TMI
News is that David Beckham has bought his wife a vineyard in Napa Valley. Apparently the produce will be just for friends and family, but maybe the talented twosome are looking for things to do once Becks hangs up his boots. Footballers Wines, and all that. Makes you wonder what […]
Make mine a Becks – wine, that is
Maybe it was my mood – dicky tummies all round chez Woods this week, probably the result of too much birthday cake (Isabella was 10 on Monday) . Maybe it was just the range of wines – a clutch of non-European reds that had been threatening to fall off the […]
(New) World Weary
A week at the International Wine Challenge hasn’t diminished my enthusiasm for decent juice. However, a final day of first round judging that saw our panel bin a number of bland, boring wines – fault-free but character-free too – left me craving something decidedly left-field (when did I start using […]