Attending wine tastings are a great way of learning about wines, revising one’s knowledge and generally increasing one’s familiarity with the immense breadth of the subject. And, they can be fun ! Such a tasting event was held on November 21, the traditional third Thursday in November, in...
I write for a number of publications, including Harpers, Decanter, The World of Fine Wine, Gourmet Traveller Wine, and The Drinks Business, and am one of the Three Wine Men. I am a co-chairman of the International Wine Challenge, the world's most rigorously judged blind tasting competition...
On my recent trip to Rome, I was fortunate to be able to attend a wine tasting celebrating the release of the llth Edition ofThe Essential Guide to Italian Wine 2025by Daniele Cernilli, aka Doctor Wine. Daniele is Italy’s foremost wine critic and both he and his wife, Marina Thompson,...
filled with tasting notes of wines the majority of which I will never get to taste, and whose taste is now surely altered from when Broadbent put them to his lips, I can't help but wonder what purpose it serves, other than as a dilletante's prop. And even if I was given the chanc...
This is innovative and well done as instead of a lecture, there is a ‘show and tell’ demonstration of decanting a bottle of red wine and then pouring a tasting quantity in appropriate glasses for a couple of attendees seated at a properly laid table, as though in a restaurant! and once...
Spanish Lessons ; When Stuart Husband Joined a Wine-Tasting at the Famous Moro Restaurant, He Was Soon Struggling with Pretentiousness, Paranoia and Rioja Aplenty. Photographs by Luca ZampedriZampedri, Luca
I would’ve just let it stay that way without Russ pushing me to clean it up for some wine tasting. It wasn’t easy considering its basically farmland now… But, let me back up a little. Secretly, I ‘ve always wanted to be a farmer. But I’m a city girl so I didn’t even ...
reductiveChampagne-making withRuinart's Frédéric Panaïotis [the chef de cave] has been great. One of the highlights for me was definitely the Harlan tasting we did with Bill Harlan and his estate manager and winemaker … if there's got to be a first growth in Napa, for me it's...
WINE TASTING NOTES FOR AUGUST 2012 My intention in posting my wine tasting notes is to give a brief description of some of the many wines I come across over a months time. Some wines will make the wine list and others will not. Choosing one wine over another for the list, comes down ...
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