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Is this the best Village Shop wine list in the world?

by on 06. Sep, 2010 in WOTW News

Buying wine from a local shop is usually a thoroughly miserable experience. Unless you live in Constantine Bay. “Constantine Bay Stores – Fine Wine and Provisions” stands next to the local surf shop and is a stone’s throw from the Treglos Hotel (where WineOfTheWeek is currently staying with Junior). And it stocks a whole bunch [...]

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Lock Up Your Jewellery Jancis – There's A Burgler About!

by on 06. Jul, 2009 in WOTW News

First it was Hugh Johnson’s priceless garden antique  and now it’s Michael Broadbent’s bicycle. Yes, dear readers, a crime-wave seems to be sweeping over Britain’s most revered wine writers. Back in March this year,  Mr Johnson had a 17th century astronomical sphere  ”half inched” from his Essex garden. Johnson, the legendary glass sniffer, lives in [...]

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Which Wine Would Feature in The Movie of Your Life?

by on 04. Feb, 2009 in WOTW News

I recently saw Dean Spanley at the cinema and for the second year running found myself watching a movie that used that sweetest of Hungarian tipples, Tokaji, as a plot construct. In this latest example, Fisk Junior (Jeremy Northam) shares a bottle of Tokaji with the Dean (Sam Neill) and discovers that his drinking companion [...]

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A Flying Visit to Berry Bros Gives Way to a Frogs Leap

by on 18. Dec, 2008 in WOTW News

Took a quick trip down to Berry Bros. & Rudd (BBR) today. Lucy needed to drop off a shirt for one of her clients in St James’s so a good excuse for me to visit the grandest wine store in London. BBR is Britain’s oldest wine merchant and they have a great back-story. The company [...]

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Ridge Geyserville

by on 18. Nov, 2008 in Video Magic, WOTW News

I first discovered Ridge Geyserville at a Wine Society Committee meeting in 2006. These meetings were invariably frustrating affairs – like a kind of parish council meeting writ large. And yet, the pain was (nearly) always eased by great food provided by the caterers at RIBA and awesome wines chosen by The Society’s fine wine [...]

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