...“An assemblage with some wine vinified as red Pinot Noir in the blend, the overall Pinot Noir content is around 60%-75%. There’s a delightful swirl of smokiness to this, lots...
...a $15 wine that deserves 95 points, but what sort of world would we live in if that were possible? You can’t buy results that cheaply. What are we? Soccer...
...rosés and three sparkling wines. Since the wines I tasted are at the cheapest end of what is possible to produce, I was expecting some mediocre wines. Mediocre quality is...
...of WBG is simple. If they’re too cheap to order a bottle of wine because they hate to pay restaurant markups, then make the markup higher on WBG. They’re gonna...
...point score meant something and was worth buying. Now when you buy a new wine critic, the chances that the wine critic will get better, reward your investment, are very...
...hundreds of thousands of pounds out of pocket; Verizon and BuzzFeed made double-figure percentage cuts to their workforce. It’s been proven that merely dominating the online stratosphere is no longer...
...hell they’re talking about.” Hmm. The online title was altered to “Opera Drops Its Scruples, Allows Millennials to Tweet During the Show”. Ouch. So, it wasn’t long before I started...
I’m an award-winning wine writer and Master of Wine with 38 years’ experience. I write for a number of publications, including Harpers, Decanter, The World of Fine Wine and The Drinks Business and am one of the Three Wine Men. I am a co-chairman of the International Wine Challenge, the world’s most rigorously judged blind tasting competition, and have won over 30 awards for my journalism and photography. So far, I don’t have a red nose to show for it.
(Here’s a longer CV below, couched in the third person to impress prospective employers.)
...regions in the southern hemisphere. Back wasn’t looking to overturn the natural order; he was just searching for a source of cheap grapes for his Goats do Roam brand. But...
...spend less than £15 retail on a bottle of wine, it’s likely to be cheaper to buy the same bottle directly from the restaurant anyway. You might also want to...
Sainsbury’s is offering a 25% discount on six bottles of wine until midnight on 1st November, both online and in store. This includes fine wines, Ports and Champagnes. There is...
...rated something cheap and cheerful from a discount store more highly than a “fine wine”, but the piece doesn’t get much attention. Wine has entered the mainstream. It’s become our...