by Gareth Groves
Chateau Petrogasm featured on the old Bibendum blog a long time ago but I had forgotten how good it was until recently when someone sent me a link. It reminded me that it really is one of my favourite wine blogs. I thought it would be worth plugging it again.
The concept is brilliantly simple: rather than using words to describe a wine, it uses pictures. It makes me wonder if language …
By Juel Mahoney http://www.winewomansong.co.uk/
I love reading wine tasting notes in Italian. I always want to sing it back. For example, what is a vino da meditazione? It’s an intriguing term often seen in Italian wine notes.
It looks like the word “meditation”, but it’s not quite.
Coined by famous Italian gastronome, Luigi Veronelli, meditazione is often used to describe sweet passito wines or …
By Lucy Bridgers, http://winefoodotherpleasures.blogspot.com
I just love this. This is a project that you simply could not make up. For people living in the London area with grape vines growing in their gardens or allotments, a growers’ collective now exists that produces an ‘Urban Wine’ from these grapes.
What’s more, the wine is surprisingly palatable. I have now tasted this delicately hued rosé twice …
By Gal Zohar, http://zoharwine.wordpress.com/
Relocating is a new word in my lexicon. Four years ago on the plane over to the big sun to the big smoke we where moving to London. Times have changed and we are not moving back but relocating. At least we learned something over these past few years.
But my London times are here …
By Colin Smith, http://www.grapefan.blogspot.com/
When I started my WSET Diploma in 2006 I made a real effort to write proper tasting notes. Initially they were all handwritten but as the volumes grew I took the technology route. I tried Tasting Buddy’s application but moved over to Bottletalk when I ran out of patience with the slow speed on my handheld terminal. I then moved …
by Erica Fowler
A subtle shift has happened in the wine purchasing habits of my friends. No longer content to buy the cheapest deal they can get, they are actively seeking me out for advice on good quality and different wines to buy. Bored of supermarket ranges and the big brands, they have developed some scepticism around wines and pricing claims – but they are …
By Lucy Bridgers, http://winefoodotherpleasures.blogspot.com/
This is where I have to declare myself as quite a serious wine nerd. I have been working in the wine business for nearly two decades, but my fascination with the subject predates that considerably.
Early on something in me clicked regarding wine. By the time I was 12 I was collecting wine corks and I remember clearly how this started. My family …
“Think, for a moment, of an almost paper-white glass of liquid, just shot with greeny-gold, just tart on your tongue, full of wild flower scents and spring-water freshness. And think of a burnt-umber fluid, as smooth as syrup in the glass, as fat as butter to smell and sea-deep with strange flavours. Both are wine.
Wine is grape-juice. Every drop of liquid filling so many bottles has been drawn out of the ground by the …
It’s been a bit quiet on the blog recently. And that only ever happens when things are crazy busy elsewhere. The last two weeks have raced by in a haze with the end of the Burgundy 2008 campaign, the hustle and bustle of the Bibendum Times tasting and the start of our February Sale. The last two weeks of January are perhaps the busiest of the year here at Bibendum HQ.
Anyway, things have calmed down …
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 …
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