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 [...]
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. [...]
Christmas 2011 was a fabulous affair with my lovely wife dispatching an 18 lb Turkey to the table with all the trimmings for 17 of us to get stuck in to. Marvelous! We had done Church and a long walk, drained 3 Magnums of Roger’s Grand Cru Tradition so the mid-afternoon marathon feast prior to The Downton Abbey Christmas [...]