Performed a big budget Wine Championship last night in the charming Regatta Room of charming Durrants Hotel in George Street, London W1 and what an especially yummy evening it was. Lynch~Bages Blanc 2009 started the evening off very nicely with its just-a-bit-different Semillon, Sauvignon Muscadelle flavours, really nice but is it worth nearly 40 [...]
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 [...]
Morning Reader, We put on a bit of a show for one of our most favourite clients last week who were entertaining their top punters and prospects and it all went really rather well. We kicked off with Bolney’s delightful, light, dry Pink Bubbly with it’s delicate flavours of raspberry and hedgerow and elegant, jolly [...]
We are continually grateful for your demonstration of trust in us by making Jascots your wine merchant of choice. As the year comes to an end and we look back, we think of all the orders made, bottles delivered and customers satisfied. Thank you for allowing us to be part of that. From everyone at [...]
Basking in the hilarity and general bonhomie of the 2011 Bective Leslie Marsh’s Annual Central London Agent’s International Wine Championships held at Searcy’s in Knightsbridge last week, I had a surprise….a positively gobsmacking surprise, actually. We’d worked our way through the first 5 wines unusually commencing with the fabulous André Roger Vieilles Vignes which scuppered [...]
Having left a very comfortable job in 2001 trading fine wines across the globe there was little satisfaction in actually dealing with wines, the whole reason I am in this business is because I adore wine, and I may as well have been trading sugar or coffee where I was. I was ridiculously excited about [...]
I read David Smith’s article on Page 4 of The Sunday Times Business Section at the weekend…just like I’ve read it every Sunday for years searching for answers on whether we’re: a. Still in the quagmire and stuck? b. Or, are we in the quagmire but clawing our way out of it? c. Or, were [...]
Ah yes, I ran two Championships last week and what a blast they both were. The first was for an IT firm who hadn’t been out to play since 2006 and made up for their abstinence with 4 hours of jollity and, the second, for a terrific bunch of mostly Irish Property Developers and Financiers [...]
I had a magical and humbling experience today (23/2/11). A ‘connection’ has been made between Jascots and the greatest sporting club in the universe, Leander, with it’s 99 Olympic Medal winning Members and our wines will soon be served to the good ol’ boys who were once strapping young chaps that rose with the dawn, [...]
Maybe they did have a point. Up until about 2004, I rather felt that the ‘new to the UK Market’ Priorats were spectaculary overpriced bunch of not-very- nice Spanish Fly and that they thought they’d created a sort of Pomerol a la Costa Brava that the witless, hapless Brit wally would choke up a pony a bottle for and [...]