Tasting in Dulwich - Wines of the Islands

Dario and David bring some Mediterranean magic to the upstanding burghers of Dulwich. (David’s notes)

Real Wines Tasting Really Good

Highlights of a tasting with Fiona Sims at Bentley’s Restaurant…

Agony Aunt

The oracle speaks (just call me Auntie Deirdre)

Pure Cold - How to get a fizzical champagne

I’m thinking of putting together a section entirely devoted to “press cobblers”, a room 101 of the web where we would first highlight and then consign to oblivion the stupidity that is written or spoken about wine when it is finally treated as a mainstream subject. A recent Channel 4 Dispatches: “What’s In Your Wine” was a well-meaning but monumentally ill-informed attempt to come to grip with the subject of additives in wine. I’m still laughing too much with incredulity to write about it. Here’s a little necklace of non-sequitur pearls to keep you amused…

Pommard 1er cru Poutures, Domaine Dublere 2006

Pommard with pom-poms…