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Australian extravaganza... 25 Aug 2013 | 03:39 pm
Last thursday was a chance to say bye to one member of the team and to wish another well in a change of location. The chosen venue was Le Cafe Anglais in west London, near Queensway. After a couple of...
Cigars & Wine Spain 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 12:55 am
This is one of those posts more aimed at helping my own memory than anything else. It is a run down of some of the interesting wines and cigars from a break in L'Escala that ended a week ago. I did a ...
BBQ chez Duvault Blochet 27 Jul 2013 | 09:19 pm
I was long over due to host the Fine Wine Team at mine, finally a date was set and we all gathered for a thursday night BBQ and bring a bottle evening. The food was basic and simple (we were 13 in num...
Tasting and dinner with Roberto Conterno of Cantina Giacomo Conterno... 22 Jul 2013 | 02:32 pm
For the last three years it has been a real privilege to travel out to Piedmont and taste with Roberto Conterno of Cantina Giacomo Conterno, in many ways my favourite estate in the world of wine, not ...
Lunch time perfection at Koffman's 21 Jul 2013 | 02:15 pm
The last gathering of "The Gang" - Mr G, Irish Peat, Nobby, Chewy, Young Will, and the sadly absent this time Ronaldinho - was for a simply stunning Petrus Dinner back in February and up in the north ...
Trade at Goodman...many a magnum... 20 Jul 2013 | 09:49 pm
A bit of a trade gathering, ten or so of us, met at Goodman in Maddox Street for a friday lunch, with a Gin and Tonic done it was time for the wine to flow. Everyone was in generous form so amazingly ...
Medlar...the gang has finally done the big three... 6 Jul 2013 | 09:23 pm
There are quite a few restaurants that have become wine trade haunts over the years. I'd like to think it is a good sign when the wine trade like a restaurant, it tends to mean that the food is good, ...
Otto's! 1 Jul 2013 | 06:14 pm
Halifax, he's appeared on here a good few times, was in town last Wednesday so it seemed silly to miss the chance to grab a quickish lunch at Otto's in the Gay's Inn road. He kindly insisted on bringi...
Some recent smokes...SLR Petit Corona, Partagas Lusitanias, PLPC & San Cristobal El Principe 29 Jun 2013 | 09:48 pm
Partagas Lusitanias 2005 Ok so it hasn't been a vintage summer as yet but it has been pretty dry and light evenings and a lack of rain mean a few things but primarily cigars. So a few days ago Tino....
Cafe Anglais then roof top BBQ with mags and cigars 17 Jun 2013 | 06:21 pm
After an ad hoc 4 days off the Cigars and all alcohol (I feel you have to do this from time to time) it was Friday and time for Lunch at Cafe Anglais just above Whiteleys in west London. I went years ...
