Monthly archives for February, 2011
Special offers on wine: genuine deals...
Published 10 February 2011
I would love to say that the reason I enrolled on my first WSET wine course was because I wanted to understand grape architecture, what effect carbonic maceration has on a wine, or to discover lesser known wine countries like Brazil.
Unfortunately, my real objective was to find “the nicest wine for the cheapest pric [...]
There’s a new shop in town
Published 2 February 2011
OK, so it’s not a completely new shop; it’s been around for about three or four months. But, it’s still new to a lot of people: I met one (semi-pro) blogger last week who still hadn’t heard of it or the original shop in Islington. I am, of course, talking about The Sampler, the ground-breaking store in the UK that al [...]