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Not Oaky-Dokey
The Independence of Wine Writers
Beating the Recession - Food (and Wine) for Thought
Red Vinho Verde anyone?
Spoofy Wines - Overegged and Over Here
More Thoughts About Recession
Magic Mark Ups - Travesties and Honest Practice
Not Oaky-Dokey
Come on growers; knock off wood...
Posted by Doug on 06-Mar-2009. Click here to read the full article
The Independence of Wine Writers
Thoughts about the independence of the national press and some of my favourite wine writers. Marks will not be given out of 100...
Posted by Doug on 06-Mar-2009. Click here to read the full article
Beating the Recession - Food (and Wine) for Thought
The other week chef Mark Hix suggested how small restaurants could survive the recession. I believe that wine merchants can be part of a solution, but only if there is a fundamental rebalancing of the relationship between themselves and restaurants…
Posted by Doug on 18-Feb-2009. Click here to read the full article
Red Vinho Verde anyone?
The most toothsomely crunchy red imaginable from northern Portugal…
Posted by Doug on 06-Mar-2009. Click here to read the full article
Spoofy Wines - Overegged and Over Here
I’ve said it before - less is definitely more…
Posted by Doug on 07-Feb-2009. Click here to read the full article
More Thoughts About Recession
Bonne Chance and Catastrophe Theory…
Posted by Doug on 03-Feb-2009. Click here to read the full article
Magic Mark Ups - Travesties and Honest Practice
Another in the series of observations about coping with the recession…
Posted by Doug on 03-Feb-2009. Click here to read the full article