By Malcolm Willatts
Forget Lance Armstrong navigating the Tour de France. Bibendum’s newest buyer, Martin Day, led our recent Tasting Club on a tour of the main wine regions of France, Italy and Spain in just under two hours. While most would stick to the recognised paths, we visited some ‘noisy neighbours’, exploring these lesser known regions that deserve to be shouted about, …
By James Caley
Pizza and wine are often partnered together, but do we know the best wines to pair with this traditional Italian dish. Plus what kind of qualities should the wines have to cope with such strong flavours? Big fans of both wine and pizza, a handful of Bibendumites wanted to know more about the perfect pizza and wine combo. …
By Erica Fowler
Stonier International Pinot Noir Tasting
They say that Pinot Noir is the heartbreak grape, and I would agree with that. No other wine seems to bring out the same levels of passion, debate and controversy than this famously fickle grape variety. When it’s good, boy is it good – producing some of the finest wines in …
By Rob Pickard
The tasting event of 2011 is almost upon us, as Bibendum EC1 is for one day only hitting a secret London location to showcase Bibendum’s extensive range of world class wines and spirits. This unique pop-up tasting will bring the extraordinary world of Bibendum to EC1, creating a one-off weird and wonderful space of vinous activity.
Bibendum EC1 will be a monstrous task …
by Gareth Groves
I am on record as not being the biggest fan of live twitter tastings. I have been involved in a few and too often social media has turned into anti-social media as participants ignore the people around them and stare exclusively at their smart phones. Meanwhile the virtual chat doesn’t really catch fire and the whole thing falls a bit flat.
With something as social …
by Gareth Groves
Everyone knows blind tasting is tough. It is a vinous minefield that can damage reputations and ego in equal measure. One is reminded of the old Harry Waugh story, when the legendary stalwart of the British wine trade was asked when he had last confused Burgundy with Bordeaux: “Not since lunch” came the reply.
Down at Imbibe 2010 last week, two …
By Tara, http://winepassionista.com/
The group of ARSEs!
On a recent Sunday in Central London a gathering of an unusual kind took place. Well, the gathering itself wasn’t strange, it was a group of wine bloggers, but the impetus that brought us together was a secret – literally! Andrew Barrow, author of the blog Spittoon, contacted us through …
By Jo Jericho,
In a cruel trick of nature I have a head cold and cannot taste a thing except alcohol. I’m sitting in a room of 14 Coonawarra Cabernets from 1982 to 2006 and I haven’t even bothered to stick my nose in a glass. It may as well be smelling salts. I couldn’t tell.
I’m missing out on something big here, I know. When was the …
By Juel Mahoney, http://www.winewomansong.co.uk/
Before I tell you about Bibendum’s Rosé tasting last night, I have to admit: Rosé has a special place in my life. I won my first serious job after university by writing a sales letter on Rosé. Nobody wanted to touch it. The manager flicked it at me across his very large desk with a hopeless smirk, “see what you can do …
By Willie Lebus
First stop sparklers
An expectant crowd gathered on Monday evening to taste a vast array of roses and gobble up some tasty teasers from the menu of 101 Pimlico Road. The reason behind the gathering was to show the assembled mob that Rose has grown immeasurably during the last ten years. There are now loads of styles and flavours to …
