The annual trade tasting of WineGB, the generic organisation for wine grown in England and Wales, coincided with the first working day of London’s recent tube strike. Honestly, I dread to think how crowded it would have been had there been an efficient way of getting to it.
It was a madhouse. Although it was spread over three of 8 Northumberland Avenue’s ballroom-sized event spaces, there was so little room between producer stands and the table I was tasting at that someone knocked...
