“Another trip to the Sherry Triangle is long over due” they tell me. The last visit was nine years ago, in 2001. We still talk about it – the Fiesta in Jerez, visit to the hunting lodge in Donana, flamenco of Sara Barras and of course, the food and wine of Andalucía. It would be…
I met Etienne Hugel in Harrogate on Wednesday. We drank coffee and mineral water and talked about wine and food and mistresses. Etienne said he would return to Harrogate in May to host a Hugel Tasting Dinner for us at Rudding Park. We will sip chilled Muscat on the terrace and drink Riesling Classic 2007…
The other day I tutored a tasting of seven Burgundy Premiers Crus for the Harrogate Medical Wine Society. After a glass of well-chilled Hunter’s Sauvignon Blanc, we started the tasting with the only chardonnay of the evening, Saint Aubin Premier Cru Sur Gamay 2002 from the Nuits-Saint-Georges negociant Jean-Claude Boisset. The Sur Gamay vineyard is…
A week ago, in a cramped and airless room on a cold and blastery day in Harrogate, I tasted ten fine, old wines. Barometric pressure was not really low enough to make it a true ‘Root Day’ according to the Biodynamic almanac. The corks however were pulled at the last minute to guard against old…
Seven days in the great vineyards of Burgundy.
A day at UK’s premier trade wine show
New Season Asparagus At last the asparagus season is here. If you were having lunch in the Rheingau this time of the year, you would order a pound of white asparagus, new potatoes and a herb omelette with a bottle of Riesling. Even though you could happily drink Riesling or Sauvignon Blanc with English asparagus,…
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