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We take a lot of things seriously at Bibendum – wine, customer, service, lunch – but nothing more so than our Vivid project which aims to make a real difference to the way we impact on the environment. Vivid is the name we give to our wide-ranging project to reduce the impact that Bibendum, its employees and its products have on the environment. …
This is the 117th and last Random Bottlings post of 2009. I’m off to Scotland and Northumbria until the New Year armed with a corkscrew and a bag packed with great wine. Who needs clothes when you can fit in another bottle of decent Burgundy or some aged Tawny Port?
It’s been quite a year and it’s hard to think back over 2009 without thinking of the economy. Over at Bibendum Times, there have been two …
Remember running around the Saatchi Gallery last January madly trying to taste over 800 wines from over 200 producers? Remember getting distracted by sculptures, Twitter tastings, winemakers, spirits and everything else that was going on? Recall producing one of the amazing 300 canvases visitors produced that we featured on Art Attack Fridays on this blog?
Well, it’s time to do it all over again – only this year things are a little …
Just a quick one as many of you have asked where we’re at with the Wahaca/Bibendum Chilli growing challenge. As the cold weather has set in, life has become tougher for the fledgling heat bombs. Their needs have changed, they might need more space and warmth, and the quality of the light just ain’t what it was.
Despite all that the plants in this little …
More than ever I find that my friends and I are thinking about the vagaries of food and wine matching… so much so that I even presented on this very topic at the Rambling Restaurant last Thursday (poor people…). Well first of all I think it’s a pretty inexact science. It’s the (newly) famous 10:80:10 rule – 10% of matches will be disastrous, the …
I spluttered my proverbial cornflakes all over my computer screen when I caught up with Neal Martin’s latest Wine Journal exploits this morning. He was reporting on the worst tasting ever…rather proudly I might add, for such an inauspicious occasion!
As well as being the masterminds behind London’s best wine shop tasting experience, The Sampler in Islington, Jamie Hutchinson and wife Dawn, must have been …
(Wiffy and wobbly: just like the Bibendum team)
You are, as they say, what you eat. This is probably truer in Burgundy than anywhere else. The jambon persille has turned us slightly green and jellified around the edges, our cheeks wobble like the piggy versions braised for us chez Grivot and there is a faint whiff of over-ripe cheese everywhere we go.
Our current fromage du …
Some of the biggest wine bods on the planet have gathered over the last couple ofdays to discuss the future of wine. With the power and reach of Twitter and live blogging, the rest of the world has been able to follow what’s going on (should they be that way inclined!). It sounds like there were highlights, especially presentations from Gary Vaynerchuk (top picture, far left), Robert Joseph and Ryan Opaz (top picture, 2nd from …
(Blues skies over Le Montrachet – a good way to start the day)
Today started where we last night left off: with widespread incredulity at Camilla’s prior career at the sharp end of the fast food industry (see below!). Finding ourselves with twenty minutes to kill before our first appointment, Ben suggested we head into Meursault for an Egg McMuffin and a cafe crème at …
(Where’d everybody go?)
It is amazing what you find out about your colleagues when you are in deepest France with nothing to do but taste 80-odd unfinished wines a day. Today’s bizarre revelations include the fact that our Fine Wine Buyer (the same one that reads Proust and looks wistfully at madelaines) once failed an appraisal whilst working at McDonalds, Alex can smell a corked …
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