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Talking Wine – October 2017

Talking Wine – October 2017 I am afraid I am not a great fan of non-alcoholic beer or lager and would always suggest the 50/50 mix with the real thing…

English Wine and Food Pairings

English Wine and Food Pairings When I first started working in restaurants twelve years ago, English wine was more of a punchline than a wine list staple. There may have…

Chilled Red Wine

Chilled Red Wine I will never forget growing up and regularly seeing a bottle of red resting on top of the dining room cabinet next to the hot water pipe…

An Early History of Winemaking

An Early History of Winemaking Winemaking is actually a natural process which doesn’t, in fact, require any human intervention. For basic wine to exist all that is needed is for…

Talking Wine – June 2017

Talking Wine – June 2017 You may well have read a most interesting article in The Times recently concerning the fact that flavour perception when tasting wine is created in…