Easy Pork Tenderloin Recipe with Cream and White Wine Sauce Pork paired with apple and sage is a classic combination that takes me back to childhood roast dinners. The apple helps offset the sweetness of the pork and sage adds a delicious vegetal note to this dish. If you are counting calories, it’s quite possible […]
Chateau Tooting – wine from south London? C’est bien vrai!
Ten years on The Urban Wine Company has a proud tradition of making wine in the capital Owning a vineyard and drinking wine made from your own grapes must be the ultimate middle-class fantasy. Although we can’t all be like Sting with our own Tuscan vineyard, many South Londoners with a back garden grapevine have […]
Land of my fathers, land of some exceptional food and drink – part one.
Tour of Mid Wales – Wine, Beer and Soft Drinks from Wales. Introduction. In Part One of this tour, we’re looking at some of the area’s best in wine, beer and soft drinks. In Part Two we will meet some great producers of chocolate, preserves and desserts. Food & Drink Wales are again running a […]
Pot Roast Partridge – a festive dish you can eat all winter.
Pot Roast Partridge with Sage and Festive Winter Wines. Here’s another festive dish that would work for a Christmas meal for two. A whole partridge is the perfect size for one person and, if you are not planning on cooking a turkey dinner, it makes a good, light tasting game dish that looks festive. After […]
Introducing Waitrose Cellar
Waitrose Cellar Event – and a trip on a Canal Boat: From memory, Waitrose was the first supermarket I used that offered a great choice of wines. Probably about twenty years ago now, I worked for Vodafone in Newbury and tried moving out of London to a tiny village near Marlborough and Waitrose became my […]
Denbies Vineyard
Denbies Wine Making in Surrey: Having cut my wine tasting teeth on a recent trip to Angers I was delighted to be invited to Denbies Vineyard in the heart of Surrey. Now, I’ve bumped into English wines a few times recently – in Cornwall the Camel Valley wines are widely available and I’ve been served […]
Loire Valley Trip
Vines, Wines and Yet More Food! We started the afternoon of the second day of our Press Trip in the Loire with a great lunch at La Croisette overlooking the river. The food here was not as spectacular as some of our other meals but it was a delight to sample the local pike in […]
Three Red Wines to Drink with your Barbecue
Rich Red Wines for National Barbecue Week: Unbelievably, just as Summer decides to disappear, National Barbecue Week is upon us. I’ve been tasting a few red wines with a view to finding the perfect drink for your barbeque. And, whilst I’m not actually planning on trying to light mine at the moment (it’s pouring with […]
Why the wine lover in your life needs a zzysh for Christmas
Zzysh – Elite wine saving for the connoisseur: Whilst my partner Alex avidly watches the Gadget Show each week, I endure it in return for him sitting through my fix of Poldark or similar. That means that I’m not usually the right person to ask to review something technical, but the zzysh involves wine, which made me […]
A Portuguese Feast – Food of the Alentejo
Food and Wine of the Alentejo: The people of Portugal eat more fish per capita than any other European country. Their heritage, world leading explorers like Vasco da Gama and an Empire that grew from their seafaring skills, is perhaps at the heart of their love of fish. Alentejo, the area directly south of the river […]