A Proper Midweek Steak Wine I picked this bottle up from Majestic for £17 and straight away felt like it might be in my lane. High altitude Argentinian Malbec, decent producer and a wine that looked like it wanted a bit more than just being a jammy fruit bomb. What I didn’t expect was just…
A New Wine Shop Find! I picked this bottle up from R&H Fine Wines in Liverpool after spending far too long staring at bottles I couldn’t quite justify buying this month. They had some proper gems on the shelves including the white Viña Tondonia and Wild Boy Chardonnay, both bottles I’ve wanted to try for…
A Birthday Meal and a Bit of a Curveball It was my mum’s birthday, so we headed out to a local Italian called Quattros. One of those places where you already know you’re going to enjoy it before anything even arrives. I went all in. Ribs in a tangy BBQ sauce to start, lasagna al…
A Post Gig Treat There’s something about getting in after a gig, the house finally quiet, and opening a bottle just for yourself. No rush, no distractions, just seeing what’s in the glass. Tonight it was the Trimbach Pinot Blanc 2023, taken out of the fridge and left to come up slightly. Straight away it…
A Late Night Pour That Taught Me More Than Expected There’s something about getting in after a gig, adrenaline still there, house quiet, and knowing tomorrow is going to be a proper Sunday roast. Liv had already set the tone without even saying it. Corn fed chicken, potatoes prepped, veg ready to go. It felt…
A Light Red in the Sun That Delivered Sometimes you don’t want power. You don’t want depth or something to sit and analyse for an hour. You just want a wine that fits the moment. That was exactly the mood here. I picked up a bottle of Santa Tresa Rina Russa Frappato, stuck it in…
There are some cracking wines out there, its just a shame that you have to look for so long to find them as is the amount of rubbish that the supermarkets have you wading through. Then there are wines like this, where the more time you spend with them, the more they reveal. The Antinori…
There are nights where you open a bottle and think, yeah this is nice. Then there are nights where everything just clicks. This was definitely the latter. I picked up a bottle of Jim Barry Cover Drive Cabernet Sauvignon as a bit of a midweek treat. Nothing too serious, around the £15 mark, but something…
Orange wine is one of those things you hear about before you really understand it. I’ve seen it mentioned more and more over the last couple of years in more of a fashion conscious sense, however when you look back at history and in particular read a book by someone like Oz Clarke, its a…
I finally got my hands on a bottle of Trimbach Riesling 2017 and decided to do it properly. No rushing, no distractions, just a good bottle and some food that would actually give it a chance to show what it’s about. I’d already had a Riesling from Hugel Riesling recently and really enjoyed it, so…