Normally the first full week of January is relatively quiet for a wine merchant. Dry January kicks in, we’re all on the Christmas come down, no one has any money…all culminate into nobody really drinking much grape juice. Apart from wine merchants themselves of course…January for me is extraordinarily busy. Yes dear readers (both of … Continue reading Work? In January…
Let’s get something straight: bees are cool. Yes they are. I say this mainly as I am a big fan of the concept of ongoing life on Earth. Did you know there are 16,000 species of bee? I know. Awesome right? Did you also know that if you stacked up all the vinyl records ever … Continue reading Oh Beehive It With These Terrible Puns
No one really knows the origins of the Masters of Wine. Mythos suggests that it was in medieval Scotland. Their ranks have included Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez; an Egyptian with a Spanish name and thick Scottish accent and a Scotsman played by a Frenchman. The wine trade is nothing if not inclusive. MW’s famously engage … Continue reading There Can Be Only One
