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Hi folks I'm currently reading a wine book.... Ok that's not very unusual!! However this is a thriller! It is an uncorrected proof sent to me so there may well be some changes (guessing only technical details) within the book but overall its a great read and a real page turner. Even if you are …
Hello again First blog for 2019. Labels.... I see and hear about people buying wines all of the time because of the labels. Its obviously a great marketing tool at a certain price point to distinguish one wine from another on extremely crowded and competitive supermarket shelves to make them stand out. Of course some …
Hi all, A few weeks ago I was extremely privileged to be invited to the prestigious Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair, London for a very special wine tasting. A tasting to celebrate the release of the 2015 Vérité wines. VÉRITÉ & CARDINALE Well, this was not going to be any old wine tasting. Vérité & Cardinale …
Hello again, A couple of months ago I was wandering around the London wine fair, when I bumped into Rosamund Barton a director of the food and wine PR agency R&R Teamwork. She asked had I heard of winebuyers.com, as they have just started the PR for them, and if I had a couple of …
Well I know you must be amazed at the fourth blog in ten days! I had met Tiléri and Natalie from Poulton Hill Estate vineyard at a couple wine tastings in the Cotswolds and really wanted to go and check out what they are doing. Well my twitter buddy Swami, now lifelong food & wine …
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Hi again...… I know 3 blogs in a week! and there is more next week too. Astley vineyard is actually the closest vineyard to my home in Worcestershire. (40 mins south of the UK's 2nd city Birmingham) When I started to taste more English still wines at trade events I really had to go and …
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Hello Great Britain is making seriously good... no seriously bloody great wines! Wine GB is the premier wine event for the UK wine industry held at the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Hall in London. All of the Vineyards at the event are listed at the end of this blog with their websites and twitter handles …
Keep a look out for the branding above as you are going to see a whole lot more of it in the not so distant future for sure!. Let me explain more. Some time ago now I got chatting to Richard James. (@RathfinnyRich - twitter handle, you should follow him, he has a great sense …
Hello again..... WOW 3 blogs in a week! I have left the comical parts until the end to keep you all enthralled, please stick with it as don't want to stretch to PART 4. haha OK I'm now on a roll and they will be regular I assure you. Well after the previous fabulous evening's …
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Hello again In January I was extremely fortunate to be invited to Passagio di Angoris, which was to be held at Villa Locatelli just outside of Cormons in Fruili, north eastern Italy. So at the end of January I get myself on a plane to Venice Marco Polo airport, where I was meeting up with …
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