Forever looking for something to “sex up the document”, I started introducing a food & wine matching element to our International Wine Championship Qs last year and, this being subjective rather than factual, I have had one or two discussions about which wine tastes best with what foods. There’s unanimous thinking that everything and anything [...]
I loved Armonio de Mas Neuf 2005 from the Costieres de Nimes when I first tasted it and the inaugural 2002 vintage was utterly divine while the 2003 was plain bonkers it was so powerful from that incredibly intense heat of the Summer. We the bypassed the 2004, but, took quite a big position on [...]
On Monday, I nipped down to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, not to give a rendition of Nessun Dorma but to taste some of the marvellous 2010 Bordeaux Cru Classes that will be hitting UK shelves in early 2013. Having been in Bordeaux earlier this year for the 2011 en primeur campaign I [...]
A smashing write-up in this weekend’s Observer by David Williams of Bertie Stehelin’s2009 Sablet. Thank you to all involved!
There are very many downsides to the blasted economic Doldrums in which we find ourselves, it’s just…..so unfun! But last week, a memory of the heady days returned when I was charged with running a small, exclusive Wine Championships with instructions to include one or two bottles around the “hundred quid mark”. Nice one. So [...]
Just at the end of day one at the Square Meal Events annual show and we are half way through our six master classes entitled Fizz for Events. What a fabulous fabulous day, not only have each of the Master classes been over subscribed, but the reaction for all that attended has been so encouraging. Our [...]
Agence France-Presse (AFP) – Gerard Liger-Belair lives in a bubble, and he doesn’t care who knows it. Bubbles are his passion. And they have given the 41-year-old French scientist arguably the best job in all of physics. In a lab supplied with top-notch champagne, Liger-Belair delves into the secrets of fizz: What gives this legendary [...]
Hello everyone, I’m back from my usual summer sojourn down to the South of France and had a mo to drop a mucker a note to esquire if he enjoyed trying the André Roger Champagne, the Vielles Vignes, that I sent him down to quench the thirsty work of watching The Games and cheering our [...]
Having opened the food & wine matching workshop with the team of Roux at Parliament Square on such a successful pairing (see part one!), maintaining that for a second dish was a challenge. Here we had smoked and cured Gressingham duck with preserved cherries and hawthorn blossom. The words don’t quite do it justice, it [...]