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Quality Chops and Clubbing
Just an average day for me in London, you will note, passing Il Camisa for a bottle of Barolo, en route to Foyles to buy Kerin O’Keefe’s book on a similar subject. Then a saunter down to Farringdon Street to … Continue reading
Posted in Dining, Wine
Tagged Austrian Wine, Beaujolais, Fleurie, Gut Oggau, Julie Balagny, Quality Chop House, Winemakers Club
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Wine Gang Prestige Champagne Event
Last night thirty very lucky people visited the Antique Wine Company’s Marylebone tasting room to taste ten Champagnes in the company of The Wine Gang (Tom Cannavan, Jane Parkinson, David Williams, Ant Rose and Jo Simon). It really was a … Continue reading
Riverby Estate Tasting, Butlers, Brighton
Riverby Estate in Marlborough, New Zealand, are pretty much unknown in the UK, yet this is not the case in NZ and Australia. They did win a Trophy and a couple of Golds at the DWWA a year ago but … Continue reading
Posted in Wine, Wine Agencies
Tagged Brighton, Brighton Wine Tastings, Butlers Wine Cellar, Marlborough, New Zealand Wine, Riverby Estate
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Dave’s Wine Heroes #3 – Alpine Wines
Alpine wines, a mail order merchant based in Yorkshire, grew out of Nick Dobson Wines, which was taken over by Joelle Nebbe-Mornod after Nick sadly passed away in 2012. Joelle actually started out in science with a Masters in Theoretical … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpine Wines, Austrian Wine, Heidi Schrock, Joelle Nebbe-Mornod, Nick Dobson Wines, Swiss Wine, Wine hero, Wine merchant
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Domaine Direct Tasting at Butlers
I managed to join a tasting of a dozen wines with new MW Rob MacCulloch from Domaine Direct at Butler’s Wine Cellar in Brighton yesterday. It’s worth reporting because there were a few wines there that are well worth exploring. … Continue reading
Oddities at Rochelle
Every couple of months an assortment of wine obsessives descend upon Rochelle Canteen in Shoreditch to partake of a few bottles. Instead of living large with old bottles of Pauillac and Chambertin, this is an exploration of the outer reaches … Continue reading
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Tagged Oddities Lunch, Rochelle Canteen, Theatre of Wine, Vignobles Guillaume, Wine Dinners
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Dave’s Wine Heroes #2 – Henry Butler
Butler’s Wine Cellar claims to be Brighton’s oldest independent wine merchant, yet it was only founded by Henry’s parents in 1979. It used to have a big reputation among secretive wine obsessives as one of the best places in the … Continue reading
Harwood Arms Sangiovese
It’s hard to imagine a better match for the delicious food at ther Harwood Arms near Fulham Broadway than a good selection of Tuscans, and that’s how it proved yesterday. The menu: To start – soup with truffles, HA Scotch … Continue reading
Dave’s Wine Heroes #1 – Simon & Heather
Wine Hero? This is someone I admire for their sense of adventure in wine. Often merchants, but equally writers, bloggers, restaurateurs. The list of people in wine I admire is long, so don’t feel let down if I take a … Continue reading
Single Vineyard Champagne – Laugh or Lick Your Lips?
The common view of Champagne is that it’s a great apéritif, something to get things going before the real wines are wheeled out. It usually comes from a Grand Marque, one of the big houses dotted around Reims and lining … Continue reading
David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 