I read this this morning and absolutely howled with laughter ~ silly, I know but I think it’s a classic and I couldn’t help sharing it with you! You have to have some Brit background to enjoy this one A bloke starts his new job at the zoo and is given three tasks. First is [...]
I popped in to one of our Gastropubs in Mayfair for a jolly afternoon of staff training & tasting mid-afternoon on Monday and was concerned to see that our new Picpoul de Pinet ‘Les Courtelles’ was first wine up….You see, mid afternoon, 3-5pm, is a difficult time to taste wines (unless one is simply merging [...]
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 [...]
Friday was the happiest of days and a 12 month hunt resulted in one of the greatest discoveries in Jascots’ 21 years history! I don’t mean to be irritating by being cagey, but, we’ve been searching, supping and spitting our way through dozens and dozens of Premier & Grand Cru Champagnes over the last 12 [...]
This year’s Bordeaux Campaign has now officially ended and I think negotiants, merchants and buyers are rather relieved that it has. It was never going to be terribly easy with another great year following “the greatest vintage in history” and with the UK economy dawdling somewhere between worrying and bleak and a combination of the [...]