Recipes
You can know you like something, and then have an example that totally detonates your underwear. I’ve always liked smoked eel, but the Test Valley smoked eel from the …
Rioja
I was sent this bottle as a gift by a generous reader – thanks! He clearly realised my historical loathing for Rioja has, like the old wines I’m growing …
Burgundy
Last weekend Peter (who was Captain of the Oxford Blind Tasting Team before me) and Edward (Captain after me) came to lovely, lovely Winchester to drink quality kit. It’s …
General
Listing all the types of cheese required for civilised existence would go on longer than Monty Python’s cheese shop sketch, but buffalo mozzarella would certainly be one of the …
Drivel
Someone just reminded me of the idea that, as a doctoral student, I thought would bring me fame and glory – a dead-easy method of losing weight. You can …
Burgundy
Lafon’s lovely and Coche comely, but if I were to chose a desert island Meursault it’d come from Jean-Marc Roulot. Why? They are supremely beautiful at all the quality …
Cider
I have some ultimately trivial but distinctly vexatious illness, consequently I am drinking raw booze in order to stop whining to The Editor. Hopefully it will put me to …
Other
As someone who really doesn’t go for Cabernet-based wines I suppose I shouldn’t like this so much. But it’s not Cabernet I don’t like, it’s good wines I like! …
Burgundy
I’ve been enjoying 2009 red Burgundies so much since their release I was rather surprised to find this bottle had closed up. Every other 2009 I’ve had recently has …
Burgundy
Captain Peter came around for lunch the other day – my did we eat and drink well! The wines ended at a screaming, literally SCREAMING, peak of brilliance, but …
