The Morning Claret

Simon J Woolf & Friends on Wild and Wonderful Wines

Month: August 2019

Skull lying in the grass
4 minute read

The earth is burning, this is not a drill

Today we ran out of water which is just as well because it provided the first line to a piece I’ve been putting off since since the mercury overdosed on too many degrees. Call it procrastination, meltdown or depression, but Read more

WSET student tasting an orange wine
7 minute read

Orange wine on the WSET Diploma syllabus, but…

Simon celebrates the news that the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) has finally added orange wine to the Diploma syllabus in 2019. But he has misgivings about the course material.