the knackered mother's wine club
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“Please can you tell me if there are any good lower alcohol wines I should try?” so asked the lovely Reluctant Launderer (she’s up the duff, and slightly in shock). Until...
After watching last week’s episode of The Apprentice, I couldn’t help feeling that English Sparkling Wine had been put in a horrible dress and made to look silly. In fact, the good stuff...
What happened when my mother tasted an English Sparkling Wine next to a Champagne…...
What happened when my mother tasted an English Sparkling Wine next to a Champagne…...
24 years ago today, at 6.05pm, I met a boy in the fields behind our respective houses. We walked to a nearby lake, where he smoked a Turkish cigarette and I tried not to appear too keen. As we climbed...
I posted about wine speak a while ago, specifically about how much of it sounds too flowery, some of it just downright ridiculous. Which got me thinking: I’d like to include your...
This last week has been both marvellous and meh. On the one hand, I taste wine for a living. Thumbs up. On the other hand, I have to work away from home for two weeks every year at a wine competition...
All this week I’ve been in London judging at the International Wine Challenge. I do it every year: two weeks, 100 wines a day. It sounds ridiculous, I know. And although I am not saving lives...
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