The Morning Claret

The Morning Claret

Great places to buy wine: Park and Bridge

Simon J Woolf
Jun 24, 2013
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Nuff 'sed

"I would never have done this if I hadn't started writing a wine blog".

So says Paola Tich, ex-journalist, blogger, communications supremo - and now owner of Acton's newest independent wine merchant, Park and Bridge. Paola's blog Sip Swoosh Spit is well known and well loved. Her writing is unstuffy and consumer focused. Paola explains that she started writing it for friends, who wanted inspiration and advice about what to buy. She rapidly realised that writing tasting notes was boring. Communicating the story behind the wine was what mattered.

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