Serendipity plays more than a part in this column and no more so than today. Prior to some members of my family returning to University, we arranged a brief respite in France. The trip was part research and development (a guilt free term I have discovered to taste...
As a recent guest attending Samuel and Samantha Clark’s restaurant, Moro in Clerkenwell, London, I returned much mellowed by an evening of Moorish cooking and a tasting of their tally of comprehensive and exciting Sherries from the wine list. Something of an epic...
It is that much more satisfying when wine recommendations and in particular this column, are prompted by the demands of a particular cuisine with which they are to be partnered: Nowhere more so than when a leading Thai restaurant in Norwich, nestling conspicuously...
Having recently returned from a buying trip to the Loire, one is perpetually surprised at the wines that abound along France’s longest river. Of its 1375 kilometres the Loire gently snakes its way through no less than ten distinct and often terribly neglected wine...
With some frequency the commercial vagaries of my profession give way to the social history of the task. Never more so than at present. This is the time of year where our office is frantically preparing for our forthcoming annual wine tasting. We make this something...
