As you may recall, earlier in the year, TY fled the country to avoid having to drink wine with me. (She claimed it was something to do with a job opportunity, but I’m sceptical.) In the spring, she said she’d be back for a visit. She also said she was in a Sangiovese phase. So […]
Way back in 2015, Julia, my partner-in-wine and I had the opportunity to spend about a week at harvest-time with Judith Beck. She, and everyone else, was wonderful. She made sure we got to experience a bit of everything: picking, working in the winery, and I even got to drive the forklift. The forklift! (My […]
One day back in the spring or early summer, I met up with TE (MT joined us later) at a wine bar in Hitchin. Worth a visit, although perhaps not in lesser company. At any rate, on the walk back to the railway station, TE dragged us into a bottle shop. I had only seen […]
I came across this wine recently. What caught my attention was that it is a grape – Terret blanc – that I can’t remember ever hearing about before. I’d so not heard of it that I need to keep checking when I want to mention it. At any rate, this seemed like a good enough […]
Let me start with something that might seem like a bit of a diversion. WSET – the industry standard training in wine – teaches you to write tasting notes in a certain style. You rank different elements of the wine, like body, acidity, tannins, alcohol and so on. You note down the smells and tastes […]
