Month: August, 2015

Will there ever be another ‘bad’ vintage? Nay

Posturing that modern viticulture and vinification render it impossible to produce a truly bad wine in any vintage, Chris Lamb – Private Account Manager in our Fine Wine team – offers a retort to yesterday’s post. The term ‘vintage’, derived through the French word vin, literally translates to the year the grapes were harvested, relating […]

Will there ever be another ‘bad’ vintage? Yea

As members of our team continue to tackle topics of (vinous) contention, Richard Veal from our Private Wine Events team argues that there are limits to the power of winemaking when faced with nature’s fancies. Mine wasn’t a good vintage. I entered the world in 1974: finding the best of what my birth year can […]

Essential ingredients: strawberries

In our series identifying key seasonal ingredients, our Head Chef Stewart Turner sings the praises of the humble strawberry, while Demetri Walters MW suggests potential vinous partners. On the table: Strawberries and cream has to be the national summer dish, and this month’s recipe is really just an extension of that. I love panna cotta: […]

On the table: Social Wine & Tapas

As part of our ongoing series inspecting London’s gastronomic offering, food writer Victoria Stewart escapes London’s drizzly pavements and settles in at Jason Atherton’s Social Wine & Tapas. ‪There is one thing better than walking off a rain-soaked street and into the hands of smiling restaurant staff, and that’s doing the same thing in August, […]