You cannot go to Britain without at least one visit to a genuine pub. They are open day and night (only till middnight though!), and they always seem to have patrons whether it’s 9am in the morning or 9pm at night. It will be pints for the men’s ‘book club’ in the mornings as they…
Everyone has the notion that working on a vineyard is romantic. For freaks like me, I do love it but a lot of people don’t realize the hard work that goes into a working vineyard. You have pruning, grape picking, netting, cleaning vats with chemicals that eat through your clothes, not to mention climbing into…
There is nothing I like more than having fun with what I do. Sometimes wine can be such a pretentious subject and being pompous is definitely not in my repertoire. The times when I do try and act the part of the ‘wine snob’, I will undoubtedly end up dribbling red wine down my front…
In celebration of the leap year, here are 29 things you should do today (well maybe try at least one, some are a touch outrageous!). It only comes around every 4 years after all. 1. Goon Bag of Fortune. Attach two wine bladders (from the wine-in-a-box) to the clothesline at opposite sides. Everyone stands in…
It’s hard to mention German wines without thoughts of Riesling popping into your head. It is an amazing grape that produces wildly diverse styles of wine, everything from bone-dry to luscious sweet tipples. It is the queen of German wines that sometimes hides us from the other delectable goodies coming out of this great land….
Getting bored of French or Australian wine and want to mix things up? Why not swap your Friday eveing bottle of vino with one from the following countries – to find the nearst store to you, click here. 1. Egypt I had to do a double take when I saw ‘Made in Egypt’ wine in…
Following on from my February 6th article, about Cava Berdie, I have to recognize another bodega whose seductive Spanish suave swayed me to the Cava side of life last summer. You, me and the guy next door are all looking for a way to stand out from the crowd and to shout ‘I am unique’, its…
Having spent the last 6 weeks in London I was eager to get out of the city and explore further a field. Of course being the obsessed oenophile that I am, it just had to be an adventure that involved wine. So after bending Mr. Spittoon’s rubber arm we decided to take his snazzy rental VW…
To launch the beginning of Amathus Drinks monthly master classes, they invited the only Armagnac house in the world that has been awarded ‘World Class Distillery’ for the last 3 years – Chateau de Laubade Bas Armagnac (CLBA). The class was held in their Soho based store in the heart of London and I was…