This month Damian Carrington muses the food matching power of Manzanilla and Fino, the absolute pleasure to be sought in a copita of Amontillado or Oloroso and the London spots serving serious Sherry alongside stonking Spanish food. As I know I have written before, I have a very soft spot for fortified wine and in […]

With advent underway, Damian Carrington from our agency arm – Fields, Morris & Verdin – collates the wines and spirits featuring on his colleagues’ Christmas menus, offering insight into what those in the trade will be drinking on 25th December. Christmas is a time of lists, as everyone knows, whether it is your own to […]

While life in the wine trade isn’t necessarily as entertaining as it sounds, or so Damian Carrington – Agency Director of Fields, Morris & Verdin – tries to tell his friends; here he reports on the new wave of producers in South Africa, a country whose vinous prospects are as exciting as can be, and […]

This month Damian Carrington – Agency Director of Fields, Morris and Verdin – explains his fondness for Spain, a nation which he feels strikes the perfect balance between holding onto the past and seeking out its future. I will come clean. I love Spain and the Spanish. This is a love that has deep roots; […]