We all have dirty secrets in out past, and here is one of mine. The first bottle of port I had was Cockburns Special Reserve. The year was 2001, I’d never tried port before and I didn’t like it.
University lecturers, geeks, 14 year old boys and people without a sense of humour. These groups of people generally wear comedy ties and comedy socks and I really wish they wouldn't as this type of clothing is just sad. The only remotely amusing cartoony item of' [...]
The human being is stupid. How we can say that we have evolved from apes is beyond me when we continue to do absurd and disgusting things? Take, for example, when we blow our nose. We know that there is nothing good coming out [...]
There are wine regions in the world, particularly Europe, that make wonderful wines that need time to age. Sadly, due to commercial needs, these wines often appear on the shelves years before they are ready for drinking, and are consumed way too young. Inexpensive Bordeaux is [...]
Matt Skinner, Jamie Oliver’s head of wine, is coming under a little bit of flak for recommending wines in his book, The Juice 2010, which he hasn’t actually tried. The book’s deadline was before certain wines from the new world had been released, and there are [...]
Sesame Street celebrates it's 40th birthday today, and as you would expect trying to find anything about wine from a show that teaches four year olds the alphabet is pretty hard. So, we turn to the Kermit the Frog, the only character to transcend The Muppet Show/Sesame Street divide, having' [...]
We are approaching the third Thursday of November and the word that will be on every wine buff’s wine stained lips will be Beaujolais. On this third Thursday, all the Beaujolais houses will be releasing their cherryade like Nouveau "wine" (note the deliberate inverted commas) emblazoned [...]
When I first saw Crystal Head Vodka, I thought it was a hoax, but desperately wanted it not to be! With Dan Aykroyd talking about the “implicit potential indestructibility of the soul” concerning us in the online video, and then a spirit’s buff coming onto [...]
I used to be a big believer in social mobility, but it would appear that it is getting more and more difficult for people of disadvantaged backgrounds to climb the professional ladder. Days where the Alan Sugars of the world could start with nothing and become a multimillionaire are, it [...]
Oooh, the environmental lobby would have a field day with the carbon emissions of lugging all the grapes to Hong Kong, just to say you have made the wine there! Why not just ship wine from America or Australia and put another label on it?
