Dec 21, 2012
After years of “winging it” with guests – nodding enthusiastically along with the analysis of the wine at hand and encouraging the conversation back to “New World” wines (namely South-West Australian wines!) as much as possible, I finally decided to do something...
Jul 13, 2012
The burly French butcher eyed me suspiciously, as if my accent had betrayed un peu trop de rosbif. He pulled out from beneath the counter an enormous slab of bovine flesh, and sunk his glistening blade into it with a sickening thud. Mon Dieu, I thought to myself, this...
Jul 10, 2012
Here at FWW, we are pretty much sorted for the Rosé tap being turned on here on the Côte d’Azur! The sun is out (at last!!), the sky is blue, the ports are a-buzzin’ with Yacht activity and yes, we have stock of all the usual suspects. The Rosés everyone seems to...
Jun 21, 2012
Onward and upward from Ott the other week, we have a serious challenge at hand! A demand from our lovely Yacht crew for Rosé wine that is affordable, quaffable and not necessarily one of the big names the guests want to drink! It was one of our WSET graduate Chief...
Jun 12, 2012
Yesterday afternoon Jeannie and I took on the task of compiling the crew wine list. Nothing I enjoy more than looking at, talking about and drinking wine but alas there was not going to be much drinking going on but it was with definite pleasure to help choose the...
Aug 3, 2011
AUGUST 2011 Wines with *** will be available from 10th August 2011 � Chateau / Domaine Appellation Region/ Country Vintage Price HT Batailley Pauillac Bordeaux, France 2000 79.00 € D’Armailhac Pauillac Bordeaux, France 1996 70.00 €...
