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 [...]
On Tuesday, 15th May 2012, Team Jascots are jointly hosting a Spanish wine dinner at The Lawn Bistro with our Head Sommelier from Jascots Wine Merchant, Raul Diaz. Raul has worked as a sommelier with Michel Roux jr and Gary Rhodes and it is with huge excitement that we are proud to announce this fun [...]
Alastair Pyatt’s final blog from the 2011 Bordeaux En Primeur Tasting. Our fourth and final day saw us up at the crack of dawn to make the hour or so drive across the river to the right bank appellations of St Emilion and Pomerol with their clay soils, merlot dominated wines and achingly beautiful landscapes [...]
By Alastair Pyatt. My my my today was a day to knock the socks off even the most jaded wine professional – the third day in Bordeaux started rather inauspiciously with a trip out to the back and beyond of the Medoc and the rather obscure Chateau d’Arsac. For the un-initiated (which until about 8 [...]
By Alastair Pyatt. Up at 7 this morning for a hearty breakfast of croissants, pain au chocolat, fruit and enough coffee to see us through the day and soon we were heading through the city centre, past the urban sprawl and out towards the gravel outcrops and perfect symmetry of Bordeaux’s much fabled vineyard. First [...]
A Nielsen Report March 27, 2012 Around the world, companies have invested time, talent and treasure in social and environmental efforts for a range of complementary reasons. For many companies, cause marketing—the use of social and environmental efforts to build a brand and increase profits—has been a secondary if not primary motivation. Cause marketing won’t [...]
By Alastair Pyatt. Well, here we are in elegant and ever so-chic Bordeaux (finally) after spending not a small amount of time sitting on the tarmac at Gatwick, thanks to those pesky scamps at French Air Traffic control mostly being on strike. After our chairman, head of purchasing and sales director got some inevitable shut [...]
By Terry Kirby – The Independent – Sunday 1st April 2012 “Champagne André Roger Brut Traditional Grand Cru NV An absolutely top-notch Grand Cru champagne from this relatively small producer, still in the same family hands and made from mainly Pinot grapes with a small amount of Chardonnay. This is a big, rich [...]
Tom Cannavan makes The War Horse Chenin Blanc, Stellenbosch, South Africa 2011 his wine of the week on wine pages. Follow this link and watch the video…. http://www.wine-pages.com/temp/war-horse.htm Tom posted the following great comments: The War Horse, Chenin Blanc 2011, South Africa Chenin Blanc is the most widely planted wine grape in South Africa, though [...]