What to buy a Wino for Christmas
Do you know a wine snob? I bet he/she has so many hectolitres of wine in various nooks and crannies of their house that they have considered converting their lawn mower to run on ethanol. Buying them...
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The Star at Harome, North Yorkshire
If there’s one thing better than a pint of Black Sheep, it’s a pint of Black Sheep served in a cosy warm Yorkshire pub, after a long Sunday morning walk on the moors. The Star at Harome is just such a...
View ArticleHopeless diet
January offers up endless possibilities for abstinence, pain and misery. When it comes to 2012 new year torture, my weapon of choice is a diet with the simple objectives of losing a bit of weight and...
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Is Riedel right about wine glasses? Château Filhot taste test
The venerable Austrian wine glass maker, Georg Riedel, has made a mistake. I know this to be a fact because I have just done a taste test on a bottle of 2001 Château Filhot that I’ve been saving for a...
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Vinsobres Domaine Chaume-Arnaud 2009
Rhone wines can be easily overlooked, and yet many rival the finest Bordeaux, as anyone who has tried Hermitage La Chapelle will tell you. This Vinsobres comes from the Southern Rhone, is inky in...
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Amo, amas Amara
Posh lifestyle website, www.amara.co.uk contacted me to ask what I thought of Riedel glasses. I’m a massive fan and already own most of the Vinum range. “What about wine accessories then?” I have tried...
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Drink up your wines before you die (or they do)
Buying wine for laying down is fraught with problems. Aside from the financial investment, and whether it would have actually been cheaper to buy that 1990 claret when you wanted to drink it, rather...
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Château Jouaninel, 2009
I had a long overdue mooch around Majestic recently. To be perfectly honest, a large proportion of the wines were predictable old fellas. But search hard enough and there are some real gems. I managed...
View ArticleOver-chill your wines when the sun is out
If the temperature in the north of England exceeds 20C (about 68F), we declare an immediate heatwave. Our local council issues emergency supplies of sunscreen and an army of ice cream vans is deployed,...
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We’ll Dink a Dink a Dink to Lily the Pink
There are pills to cure anything, right? Even a hangover. Remember RU21 – the pill of choice for ‘Russian secret agents’ whose main role in life is to sleep with their victim (in the biblical sense),...
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