Wine with Food: what to drink with pork
Pork dishes in four Michelin starred restaurants (clockwise from top left): Duke of Berkshire barbecued pork ribeye, baked potato, sorrel...
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- Mar 7, 2017
The Year they Tried to Erase: 1956 Tokaji
Two bottles of rare, museum collection Tokaji Aszú were opened in London last week. I was one of a handful of tasters Revolutionary...
- Mar 1, 2017
Credit Where Credit is Due: Hawke's Bay's stellar Chardonnays and a debt to Australia
Hawke's Bay is producing stellar Chardonnays, some from vineyards within spitting distance of the Pacific Ocean. Left and centre above,...
- Feb 17, 2017
Girls' Night: who'd have thought it...
As I sat on the train reading up about the dinner I was heading for at Northcote in Lancashire, a Michelin-starred restaurant and AA...
- Feb 10, 2017
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2014
Aubert de Villaine, director and co-proprietor of DRC, at Corney & Barrow's London HQ for the tasting The wines were tasted at Corney &...
- Feb 10, 2017
Romance in a Wine Bottle
There's no harm in serving up vinous clichés, as long as they're good. These are: two pink Champagnes and two reds that will have your...
- Jan 11, 2017
Giving German Pinot Noir some more love
I made the point in last week's Wine of the Week that Germany has never been short of red wines. More than one third of its vineyards are...
- Jan 9, 2017
Beaujolais: The Comeback Kid
The famous windmill that gave its name to Moulin-à-Vent, one of the ten crus of Beaujolais I was slightly wary of showing a Beaujolais to...
- Dec 20, 2016
The Festive Fortified Wine Guide
Fortified wines are the perfect, relaxing wines to sip when life moves into the slow lane in the evenings and over the festive period....
- Dec 19, 2016
What to Drink with Goose? It's easier than you think
People overestimate the difficulty of matching wine to roast goose. I really don't think it's tricky. I do goose at Christmas every year...
- Dec 16, 2016
The Festive White Wine Guide 2016
A round-up of white wines – dry first, then sweet – to cover the festive season, whether it's a quiet night in, basic crowd control, or...
- Dec 14, 2016
The Festive Red Wine Guide 2016
Updated 15 December to take in a Christmas offer price in the Co-op – £5 off its Chateauneuf-du-Pape A round-up of red wines of all...
- Dec 9, 2016
The Festive Champagne Guide 2016
December 29, 2016: prices and stockists updated. I’m writing this a few days after The Wine Gang’s 2016 Ultimate Champagne Evening, so...
- Dec 6, 2016
Christmas Fizz: anything but Champagne
The first of this year’s festive round-ups is sparkling wines – any kind of alcoholic fizz except Champagne (Champagne will follow)....
- Nov 29, 2016
A £12 Wine You Can Age For Two Decades
Grapes for Amarone drying on traditional bamboo trays After visiting Valpolicella last month, I was going to write about the current...
- Nov 2, 2016
Give Muscadet Some Love: five wines to try
Post updated with more recommendations and more about the crus communaux on 11 November 2016 Muscadet has been having a tough time of it...
- Oct 29, 2016
Is co-fermentation the new black for Port?
Co-fermenting – fermenting different grape varieties together happened by default in the past It was a while since I’d been in the Douro...
- Oct 16, 2016
A Corker of an Afternoon: checking into the recorking clinic
Caught in the act: me snapping the documentary cameraman from National Geographic photographing my three bottles of Grange just before we...
- Oct 7, 2016
The Next Big Thing...
This is the sort of piece I normally write at the close of the year, but I have more than enough material and deserving wines to mention...
- Apr 19, 2016
Penfolds Grange and Special Bins: a unique vertical tasting in Paris
Hosted by the Australian Ambassador to France at "an intimate dinner", it was billed as "the first ever monumental vertical tasting of...