by Gareth Groves
I’d make a rubbish restaurant review blogger. For a start, I’m useless with a camera and always feel embarrased when I do take photos in restaurants. I just feel bad stopping my friends from diving in to their scallops starter while I snap away merrily. All of which is my excuse for illustrating this post with a photo nicked for Odette’s website rather than …
Wine bores are always banging on about the nirvana of tasting old wines, experiencing a bit of history, imagining what was happening in a world gone by as these very grapes were ripening. Whole books get written about ancient vintages of this and that and the exhilaration of tasting from battered, deformed bottles. ‘Elixir’ seems to be a word used a lot in these circumstances. ‘Primordial’ as well. …
