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EWBC 2012 – The Wine and Food of Turkey

Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 Wine Tasting

EWBC 2012 – The Wine and Food of Turkey

The EWBC conferences bring together the most generous of souls; I’m yet to meet a wine lover who doesn’t delight in sharing the bottle in hisRead More

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Kavaklidere Vineyard

Date: Sun, Nov 25, 2012 Wine Tasting

Kavaklidere Vineyard

One of the most remote regions I have travelled to recently – Cappadocia in Turkey. Safe to say a rather wild landscape and one with onlyRead More

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EWBC 2012 – The People

Date: Wed, Nov 21, 2012 Wine Tasting

EWBC 2012 – The People

The people, the country and the wine – the three strands that combined to make the 2012 European Wine Bloggers Conference such a success. Here aRead More

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Courvoisier Punch Recipe

Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 Wine Tasting

Courvoisier Punch Recipe

A quick and easy to prepare punch, perfect for the party season. Or up the Courvoisier ratio and serve as a more potent cocktail. Courvoisier PunchRead More

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Cappadocian Vineyard from a Balloon

Date: Sun, Nov 18, 2012 Wine Tasting

Cappadocian Vineyard from a Balloon

Not often you experience a vineyard fly-over from a balloon; this little scrap of dusty earth happens to be in a remote corner of Cappadocia inRead More

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Tio Pepe

Date: Sun, Nov 11, 2012 Wine Tasting

Tio Pepe

For this weeks Sunday Snap Shot a photo of sherry… Unlike many styles of wine, fino is best enjoyed as young as possible, and is alwaysRead More

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Freixenet Mediterranean 75

Date: Wed, Nov 7, 2012 Wine Tasting

Freixenet Mediterranean 75

A cocktail presented as one of the Freixenet Festive Cocktails. What makes the Freixenet Mediterranean 75 interesting is that it was drunk in Rick’s Bar AmericainRead More

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Pouring the Red

Date: Sun, Nov 4, 2012 Wine Tasting

Pouring the Red

Pouring the red – a restaurant table crowded with the accoutrements of fine dining – bread basket, plentiful cutlery, numerous glasses, candles, the salt cellar andRead More

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Livery Hall Ceiling

Date: Sun, May 20, 2012 Wine Tasting

Livery Hall Ceiling

The ceiling detail of the Livery Hall in the Vintners Hall, spiritual home of the wine trade in the UK, the Vintners’ Company, one of London’s famous livery companies. Despite the halls long history this ceiling dates from a remodelling in 1932. Just a sampler of the room in which Naked Wines held its latest ...

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Visiting Freixenet

Date: Thu, May 17, 2012 Wine Tasting

Visiting Freixenet

It might just be down to me having the attention span of a gnat or maybe it was the translation from Catalan and Spanish to a heavily accented English; but I rather lost the thread. Roul Lopez engaged us, to one degree or another, with talk of yeast. I know, I know in relation to ...

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Jubilee Beers

Date: Mon, May 14, 2012 Wine Tasting

Jubilee Beers

If it is possible to wrap a Union Jack around it someone has branded it a special ‘Jubilee’ product. Good luck if you are a collector for there are hundreds – special edition malts at hundreds of pounds, Jubilee Hampers and Union Jack encased chocolates. Who would have thought a tin of digestives could be ...

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Messina Hof Tripytch

Date: Sun, May 13, 2012 Wine Tasting

Messina Hof Tripytch

A rare privilege, a few weeks ago, of a chance to sample some Texan wines here in the UK. You don’t see much, if any, Texan wine over here so to have these samples sent direct from the winery – Messina Hof – was a delight. The tasting, organised by Big Pinots, formed part of ...

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Drink Me! How to Choose, Taste and Enjoy Wine by Matt Walls

Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 Wine Tasting

Drink Me! How to Choose, Taste and Enjoy Wine by Matt Walls

Page 35 – Blagging It, about sets the tone. “Now say one of the following: If it’s a recent vintage: ‘Quite developed for a young wine.’ If it’s an older bottle: ‘Lovely developed aromas coming through’ If it’s from the New World: ‘Clearly New World,; lovely, vibrant fruit’ And so on. I imagine most in ...

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Goretti Wine Corks

Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 Wine Tasting

Goretti Wine Corks

Nothing says ‘great time’ quite like a grand collection of corks; and say what you like about screw-caps but they just ain’t as photogenic! Taken during a marvellous stand-up buffet at the Goretti Winery [Adegga / Snooth]this was just one little pile for they treated us grandly. The visit to the Goretti’s was part of ...

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