By Tara http://winepassionista.com/
I love reading Decanter. The articles are extremely well-written, the information is always valuable, timely and interesting. However, I always skip over the tasting notes.
This isn’t because I’m a wine geek and already know what to expect from all the wines – far from it! For me, just the fact that the wines were deemed interesting enough for discussion among the pages of the …
After months of build up (we first sat down to talk about the theme way back in the Summer), tomorrow is the day Bibendum Times finally explodes into life down at the Saatchi Gallery. Nearly 200 winemakers will be pouring over 1000 different wines and the RSVP list just gets longer and longer every time we look at it.
Hopefully, by now many of you will have visited the Bibendum Times website …
Diners line-up at the Audry tasting event
By Will Lowe, Spirits Agency Sales
Seeing as I’ve got 45 minutes to kill on the train this morning, I thought I’d take the opportunity to report on a fantastic event I had the pleasure of attending last week.
In the opulent surroundings of the Knight’s Room …
At last week’s LIWF event at ExCel I reckon I only had time to try about 20 wines…in 3 days…out of thousands! Being busy is a good thing, I kept telling myself. Sweating a bit is less good but acceptable in the circumstances, I also told myself. Perhaps I just spent too long telling myself stuff…
Anyway, I did manage to escape the Big Brother stand for …
Got together with a load of food and wine bloggers last night to take a trip down gastronomic memory lane. The theme for the evening was ‘Guilty Pleasures’ which necessitated everyone digging into their memory banks for the food that they love, but are a bit scared to admit. And what a line-up it was!
The Menu:
Cheesy Biscuits
Marmite and Cucumber sandwiches …
As promised, here is a much better look at what happened at the ‘Handmade by Bibendum’ Annual Tasting on Wednesday. Sadly I couldn’t be in all places as all times so the following is a peek into my day:
6am – Get up at about the time that the sparrows have finally finished watching ‘Late Night Poker’ on Channel 4.
6.15am – eat my Bran Flakes. For this sort …
