by Juel Mahoney
We only have one CD in the car as we drive around the superstar chateaux on the left bank of Bordeaux: The Best of Rod Stewart. “It was only £2.50,” said Ben Collins, unwrapping it from its plastic, “No wonder went HMV bust.” We wondered how he could have paid so much – much as we wondered …
by Gareth Groves
According to the Chancellor, 10,000 pubs have closed in the last decade. Yesterday, George Osborne announced that he was going to help the industry by not only ending the beer duty escalator but cutting a whole penny off the current duty figure. He’s generous like that.
The policy strikes me as both positive and pointless.
‘Positive’ because ending any of the alcohol …
by Juel Mahoney
There are people whose job all day is to predict trends (I’m just being glared at by the Market Insights guy as I type this…). So a surprise hit like the Pepik Sekt NV must make the trend-spotters wish to have focus groups with angels.
If you had told me before the Annual Tasting that a bottle-fermented …
by Gareth Groves
“I am a legend!”
The great Ben Collins is indeed a Bibendum legend. He’s been here from the very beginning, half his life in fact, selling fine wine to the great and the good around the country. On Monday night more than a few Bibendumites gathered upstairs at our local The Lansdowne to celebrate his 60th birthday. As …
by Gareth Groves
Good food would choose Bordeaux. Or so the current marketing campaign for the region’s wines would have you believe. To help prove the link between Bordeaux and fine grub, Bordeaux Wines organised a masterchef style cooking competition for members of the trade and press.
The competition was hotly contested. Two heats of six teams were whittled down to six …
By Rob Pickard
This week saw the launch of Bibendum’s very own delivery vans, with the trucks sporting our colours and loads of photos from our travels around the world and recent events.
With Bibendum’s move to Trade Team, it was possible to put our own stamp on our delivery vans with a blank canvas available for our …
On Tuesday, I was speed tasting some of the reds at our W1 tasting to check for TCA or other problems before we opened the doors. I wasn’t taking my time to think about balance, fruit or quality. I wasn’t writing notes and mentally composing potential food matches. It was open, pour, sniff, slurp, spit and …
By Gareth Groves
Yesterday was our Bibendum W1 trade tasting, held in the grand splendour of Chandos House in central London. Our resident photographer, Tom Jacques, was out and about with his camera and we’ve published some of his shots below. You can see more on Tom’s Flickr page.
The wines were looking great. Vietti Barolo …
The story of Priorat is one of the most amazing in wine. An isolated, deserted rocky wilderness to the south-west of Barcelona it has been transformed from a forgotten rural backwater to the home of Spain’s most expensive wine in just over 20 years…
Grown in some of the highest vineyards in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, this cracking Riesling offers awesome lime fruit, partnered with that flint and slate minerality which characterises the best Aussie Riesling.
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