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Jascots & Restaurant Associates Food and Wine Matching Workshop – Part One

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 [...]

A Marche Champion

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 [...]

Spectacular Priorat

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 [...]