By Rob Pickard
Over the last few weeks we’ve been having a sort out of the many thousands of images we have on file here in the marketing department. With so many producers and so many keen Bibendumites eager to visit these wine producing regions, we’ve over the years accumulated a huge array of winery and vineyard pics.
Big fans of wine and all …
By Rob Pickard
With less than two weeks to go until Bibendum EC1, we are working around the clock to produce what will be the tasting event of the year. Last year’s Bibendum Times tasting will be a tough act to follow, but as you can see from a previous blog post from behind the scenes, Bibendum EC1 will be like nothing seen …
By Rob Pickard
The 2010 harvest is now well underway across Europe, the grapes are being picked, the presses have been dusted down, and the crushers fired up. Following on from the excitement of the 2009 vintage, the long, busy September days are once again in full swing. Here are a few highlights of three producers from Italy and Spain I have been following, as they blog, …
By Gal Zohar
The real star
The world of wine is constantly expanding and always in search for new wine and the other pairings. New concepts are invented and Sommeliers then try to execute the bizarre task of matching wine to art, music or the colour of the walls. But this is not always …
By The Winesleuth http://winesleuth.wordpress.com/
The Brunello from Banfi
My infatuation with Italian wine continues. A is for Amarone. B is forBrunello di Montelcino, bodalicious, complex, tasty, lipsmackingly satisfying (ok,so I’m skipping around the alphabet and making up words) you get the point, I do love those Italians. Growing up with only the familiar wicker covered funnily shaped bottles of Chianti, that was my only …
By Rachel Thompson,
A whirlwind tour of some of the most idyllic tourist spots in Tuscany was the basis for our June buying trip. Side-stepping the trainer clad and camera wielding coach trips of Florence (where even the mosquitos wear bum bags) first on our target list was Castellani, a short hop from Pisa airport, for a mammoth tasting. There followed by a tour of …
Think of the different ways you could spend 3 days. You could play cricket…that certainly seems to go on for a while. You could drive in the Le Mans 24 Hour race….three times. If you could run on water and also keep up a steady running speed of 15mph, without sleeping or stopping for 72 hours….you’d reach New York. I did the maths…
Don’t know about you …
