Dinners, Tastings.

Brown Bag dinners are always a good time. Despite the fact that I am rumoured to have been drinking wine for half a centruary I seldom get this sort of thing right, but no doubt its educational along the way.   For those who have not attended one before, you bring along a bottle wrapped up and we evaluated them together. Its a little easier with this theme because we know that its got to have come from Montalcino and is Sangiovese. After that - its a bit of a race to see whats best.   After voting (and drinking) we unmask them. This is the part where I am usually miles off,,,   By way of a benchmark I am bring a Capanno BdM...

Brown Bag dinners are always a good time. Despite the fact that I am rumoured to have been drinking wine for half a centruary I seldom get this sort of thing right, but no doubt its educational along the way.   For those who have not attended one before, you bring along a bottle wrapped up and we evaluated them together. Its a little easier with this theme because we know that its got to have come from Montalcino and is Sangiovese. After that - its a bit of a race to see whats best.   After voting (and drinking) we unmask them. This is the part where I am usually miles off,,,   By way of a benchmark I am bring a Capanno BdM...

Every six months or so we ship in a range of vintage Rioja reds from an exclusive source located in the heart of the region. The collection specialises in this genre, with exacting care given to the provenance, lifelong storage and prospective drinkability of the wines.   Over the past ten years we have regularly sold, and I have more than regularly "tested" wines from this source and only discovered two that were no longer dancing. This is as much testament to the rigour of the source as well as the durability of Tempranillo from Rioja - forever proving that old school is the best school...   The vast majority of the...