Thursday morning rain, lengthy train journey to La Conseillante tasting arranged by Richards Walford – not the best start to the day and my mood was not helped by the tube – stuck in the tunnel (bless Ken [Livingstone, now ex-mayor of London] for improving the buses but he did...
La Conseillante at Bray
Guest contributor
Tuesday 13 May 2008
Lindsay Hamilton, co-founder of London fine wine traders Farr Vintners in 1978 but since the end of March 2008 a man of leisure, files this report on one of the many lunches to which he has been invited since news of his (amicable) departure from Farr began to filter out.
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