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

by Gavino 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 Gavino 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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Voting Irregularities as Obama gets set to declare "It's the Economy Stupid"

by Gavino on 04. Nov, 2008 in But Seriously..., WOTW News

Here we go again! Voting irregularities, electors facing poll closures before they can mark their “X” and electronic machines short-circuiting due to rain storms. God Bless America, it makes you long for the hanging chad. Obama or McCain is the choice that faces the voters in the bankrupt superpower across the Atlantic and we Brits [...]

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