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Remote Wine Tasting

01 Sep 2011 by Helen

How much of a wine’s character sticks in the memory – smells, tastes, colours, overall impression? Well, this week I...

01 Sep 2011 by Helen

Marks and Spencer has just won two awards for its enterprising wine lists – the Decanter magazine Supermarket of the...

17 Aug 2011 by Jill

I’ve been loving Simon Hopkinson’s The Good Cookon TV and nearly every week have been inspired to cook something from...

02 Aug 2011 by Helen

Continuing Squidbeak’s Spanish theme (as I wasn’t around to partake of the chilled Manzanilla in Andalucia) Tesco has two delicious...

30 Jul 2011 by Helen

To York Wine Club’s tutored tasting at the Dawnay Arms in Newton on Ouse promising summer whites from France and...

21 Jul 2011 by Helen

My twenties and thirties were spent in a love affair with Greece. First island hopping, staying in cheap rooms suggested...

10 Jul 2011 by Helen

If the thought of wine tastings where it’s all sipping, sniffing and spitting are not for you, then you might...

14 Jun 2011 by Jill

I’ve written about 3 York Place in Leeds a number of times and had some delightful meals there but, boy,...

06 May 2011 by Helen

As someone who fell in love over a Lebanese Wine (Chateau Musar 1981 since you ask) I have a predilection...

10 Mar 2011 by Helen

If, like me, you’ve been trying to wean yourself from carb. heavy winter comfort food onto a fresher salad and...