Home-grown wine from an unlikely source. Good luck to Chris and Gillian Spakouskas with this new venture – certainly makes a change from their daily milk round. For more details on Yorkshire Heart Vineyard, phone +44 1423 330716 or take a look here.
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I expect some readers will probably have seen this before, but it’s a new one to me. Who would have believed that the star of Under Siege, Exit Wounds, Belly of the Beast and most recently Machete would be such a wine expert? Chuck Norris, maybe, but Seagal….? PS The […]
Wine Tasting with Steven Seagal
The Manchester Food & Drink Festival kicks off this week and runs until October 12th. For the first time, there’s going to be a special event for wine lovers in the form of the MFDF Independent and Local Wine Festival. This Friday and Saturday will see several of the North […]
Calling All Manchester Wine Lovers
If you’re female, live in or around London and are remotely interested in wine, Women of Wine is organising an event next week at Whole Foods Market in Kensington looking at Georgian and Lebanese wines. As well as the chance to try several wines, there will be three speakers (all […]
Calling all Women of Wine – a chance to explore ...
Saw on Facebook that Jamie Goode is currently staying at Quinta do Noval. Hope he’s having a great time, I have fond memories of being there at roughly the same point for the 1998 vintage, which was, not to mince words, one of the crapper years in recent memory. It […]
Quinta do Noval, Swedes and Morris Dancing
…according to Tim Atkin in the Observer (see here) include this particular site. Thanks for that Tim, what you don’t see is my frustration with not having enough time in the day to really do with this web site what I want. I have notebooks full of tasing notes, a […]