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 [...]
Fabulous tasting today at Jascots HQ – Christoph Graf of Reichsrat Von Buhl was our special guest today, bringing with him amongst other things a selection of his latest Rieslings, ranging from the steely, bone dry or trocken, right through to the luscious and achingly unctuous nectar of their typically teutonically titled auslese and beerenauslese. [...]
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 [...]
This was such a treat for us! We were perched in Roux at Parliament Square (needless to say it’s an amazing venue) with a team of seriously top class chefs with their bang on-trend, wow-packed creations alongside a range of truly delicious wines. So, we were fully primed to welcome the first dish of the [...]
If you are invited to a connoisseur’s dinner party you will need to answer this terrible question: What is the best wine you have ever tasted? I had the fantastic opportunity to host an event last week tasting some of the best wines ever produced during the last century. We were blessed to taste superb [...]
What a day yesterday’s Trade & Press Tasting was at Somerset House. There were so many great people there. We loved it and we think they loved it. On our exit pole the top five most favourite wines for the day were: Best Sparkling/Champagne – Champagne André Roger, Grand Cru, Vieilles Vignes [13%] Best Northern [...]
By Jack Scott Having heard all about the fall in production of the Languedoc and the gobbling up of 15% of the Languedoc’s production by the Chinese, David Round MW, James Fleetwood Mac and I prepared our palates with Côte de Boeuf the night before setting about the mission of blending this year’s House Wines [...]
By our Chilean Sommelier, Raul Diaz It is a great pleasure for me as a Chilean to share this blog with you. In my early career I was lucky to witness the early development of Chile’s wine export industry and in my more recent history it has been fantastic to witness the steady growth in [...]