Last Thursday I hosted a wine tasting for about 40 professional people in Bath, western England (its famous Georgian crescent is pictured here). The wines, mainly chosen by the organiser of the event, wine lover Dr Rick Porter, whom I first me in Edmund Penning-Rowsell's garden in the Cotswolds in the early 1980s, were supposed to demonstrate passion in wine producers. This was a theme chosen by him not by me as I am a little wary of over-use of the term passion in wine marketing but I did take his point and he, with a little nudge from me...
Riesling triumphs in Bath
Tuesday 21 April 2015
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