Category: Vinous

Scores.  Out of twenty (the old guard, the English), out of 100 (our American friends, the young guns).  A nightmare.  I don’t score wines as a matter of ...

“I like the way you spit”.  One of the seedier chat up lines I have heard. Go to a morning tasting, with work in the afternoon, and you’ll soon realise why spit...

“I am not a winemaker”.  An odd comment maybe from a man who quite clearly makes wine, but one that impressed me.  The man was Manuel Marchetti of A...

Knowing a little about wine has a bit of kudos to it: oh, you’re the wine expert, that sort of thing.  And the nature of wine is such that one only needs ...