It’s a non-painful affliction, apart from a certain embarrassment, but I am sure I wasn’t the only one suffering from Malbec finger last week. The conditionRead More

Fourteen Fucking Quid for a cocktail?! Sorry for the swearing; I generally dislike such language in blog posts (sorry Old Parn) but on this occasion IRead More

A guest post from pal Jeanne Horak-Druiff aka famed London-based South African blogger/writer/photographer CookSister offering a unique angle to the UK’s major wine trade event theRead More

The full list of the ‘official wines’ those speed tasted on the three tables is up on Adegga… Each producer was showcasing one wine and hadRead More

They came like bees to the proverbial pot of locally sourced honey – a selection of the UK’s top wine, food and drink bloggers headed toRead More

What I should have said was something along the lines of… “Many thanks everyone for coming along today. As you can see from the list inRead More

I tweeted yesterday that of the 54 photographs I had taken at the Sunday ARSE3 tasting 5 were not actually taken by me, 18 were blurredRead More

Sometimes things just don’t work out; events appear to be simply working against you. So it was with the plan to attend a grand taste-off betweenRead More

What I have to ask is what exactly DID I do during the ARSE 2 tasting/picnic? I served the wine, unveiled the hidden wines to theRead More

An odd lot are bloggers. You would assume intelligent but some are disgracefully bad at even making the right railway station let alone getting on theRead More