tasting

Alex on taste 5 Mar - In the original version of this review, Alex included a brief paragraph criticising the proofreading of this...

Alex on taste It includes blind tasting. I rarely feel more typically English than on my annual buying trip to Burgundy. It isn’t...

Don't quote me I had never paid much attention to wine competitions. When wines win medals and prizes, who are they competing against...

Don't quote me Every year the en primeur tasting organised by Assovini Sicilia demands of the attendees a certain strategic approach. Last year...

Alex on taste 'You are about to enter the courtroom of Judge Judith Sheindlin.' Oh bliss! 'The people are real ... the cases...

Free for all Beware Oxbridge, Ivy League and Grandes Écoles! Two crack tasting teams from Asia have just been selected to compete against...

Alex on taste All wine merchants need a few sobering moments in their lives. My most recent came when accidentally watching Celebrity Great...

Free for all At yesterday's 59th Oxbridge wine-tasting competition, Oxford won quite decisively after a run of wins by Cambridge. They fielded the...

Free for all Last week's Australia Day tasting witnessed the final of the University Wine Champions at the Saatchi Gallery in London. An...

Free for all London Gastronomy Seminars, launched at the end of 2009, has a fascinating topic on the agenda tomorrow (Friday) evening: 'the...

Don't quote me One of the questions I am asked most frequently is 'do wine tasters have to avoid certain foods?' I'm naturally...

Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. This rather disgusting image is the...

Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. 28 May - You might like...

Free for all I spent much of Thursday and Friday reading 70 entries for Fine & Rare Wine's competition, offering the winner a...

Don't quote me See full details of this quiz here. Believe it or not, it should be possible to find the answer to...

Don't quote me See full details of this quiz here.