When wine stops words
I cannot drink wine while writing and write anything worth reading. This feels like an appalling oversight from whoever assigned…
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A case of … Gerard Basset OBE MS MW
1. The first wine What was it?It was a long time ago! I was very young and I don’t remember…
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An autobiography by the glass
Wine journalists all know the kind of in-depth retrospective tastings winemakers usually put on for the press — verticals showing…
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A case of … Vijay Amritraj
1. The first wine The most important questions really are not “what” (or when) but why? This is the only…
Hengst: a thoroughbred stallion?
Earlier in the summer, I was part of a group of journalists who spent the morning in the grand cru…
Royal Tokaji building on memory
After the collapse of Communism in 1990, Royal Tokaji was the first foreign-backed producer in a region with a glorious…
A case of … David Hohnen
1. The first wine What was it?A blend of jug wines, Shiraz, Grenache, and possibly Mataro. Where did you drink…
Never pimp your wine
One of the most inane things a grown up man can possibly say – even more so than “We are…
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