The plan for Sunday dinner was a ‘quick and simple’ recipe of pan-fried pork with a pecan and bourbon cream sauce (adapted from a recipe inRead More

Like the proverbial bus once you discover one million year old whale skeleton in a vineyard you discover another. Down Australia way in Brain Croser’s ‘Whalebone’Read More

Wine Tasting Note: Mas de la Seranne Antonin et Louis, 2003, Coteaux du Languedoc, France.Available from Pic Wines for £14.30. [more] A little duck roasting inRead More

A dirt cheap, non-vintage red, with a shiny label – cheap Californian plonk – what am I thinking of!? Especially following the wine-box debacle. Thing is,Read More

What I really wanted to cover for today’s Wine Blogging Wednesday were these pre-filled Tulip glasses. Sadly getting through to the supplier/producer has been a mightRead More

Wine Tasting Note: Valdivieso Pinot Noir Reserve, 2005, Casablanca Valley, Chile.Picked up from Waitrose for £8.99 (£8.54 online). Deep and colourful for a Pinot Noir, veryRead More

Christophe Chapillon is a Frenchman and a “somewhat maverick businessman” living in Zaragoza, Spain. He recently sourced some old vine Syrah and Merlot, and asked ManuelRead More

Is it Syrah or Shiraz? Not that it matters but unusually for a New World bottling the label uses the French Syrah rather than the moreRead More

A rummage around the bottom shelves in Oddbins unearthed this little beaut. Forget those crusty old, baked, oxidised, fruitless Portuguese whites of old and embrace thisRead More

Wine Tasting Note:Altano Reserva, 2000, Douro, Portugal.Bin-end stock at Waitrose £4.99 down from £6.99.Bought to accompany a spicy, rich, Spanish-inspired Chorizo and Potato Stew the flavoursRead More