Wine, food and other pleasures

Time is flying by and, amazingly, it's now almost October. Anyway, early last month, in August, Nathan and I had a memorable micro-break...

Until recently I had very little experience of home-made wine or wine made from fruits other than grapes. That is until a local mum frien...

The picture says it all really: chocolate brownies and luscious sweet sherry. I've often sipped treacly sweet PX with chocolate which...

It's not so long ago that every year in late November we were awash with Beaujolais Nouveau, whether it was the local offie, rest...

I used to have quite a soft-spot for this wine and recently had the chance of tasting it for the first time in nearly two decades. In May...

I've been waiting too long to write this piece. After an endlessly cold, damp, dreary spring, we are now basking in bright sunshine a...