The Morning Claret

Simon J Woolf & Friends on Wild and Wonderful Wines

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Dept stores have changing rooms, why shouldn't wine shops have tasting rooms?
5 minute read

Great places to buy wine: Dvine Cellars

Something rather wonderful is happening with wine retailing in the UK. It didn’t begin well: Over the last 20 years, we’ve seen virtually all our mainstream wine merchants go bust – something catalogued by Tim Atkin in his recent article Read more

A very sparkling bottom

To some, the idea of English wine is a bit of a joke, wrongly associated with those sickly sweet concoctions labelled as “British Wine”. It’s an unfortunate and confusing quirk of our labelling laws that “British Wine” is made from Read more

Gribble Bridge Ortega Dry 2009, at brixton cornercopia
3 minute read

Lunch at Brixton Cornercopia (Obscure white grapes, Part 2)

Brixton Village used to be a forgotten corner of the market, depopulated and unloved, until 18 months ago when the spacemakers project started persuading artists, philosophers, foodies and other madmen into the once empty units. Fast forward to March 2011, Read more