Sarah Ahmed – The Wine Detective

Frivolous on Friday – music & wine playlists

Last year, I had great fun meeting opera singer Bryn Terfel when I contributed to a Radio 4 programme about Terfel’s alternative dream career – being a master sommelier.  I teed up Terfel on wine tasting skills and Berry Brothers & Rudd’s Alun Griffiths MW put the singer through his paces at High Timber restaurant. [...]

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High Timber!!!!!!

I presented my South African Rhone blends with a twist tasting at High Timber restaurant in July, reported here.  The Sadie Family Palladius 2008, the 2007 of which was voted favourite white of the night, has recently been crowned White Wine of the Year in the 2010 John Platter South African wine guide.  Made by [...]

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Eating humble pie

August has been the humble pie season and I’ve had a double-helping!  First,  I said I’d never blog and here I am, writing my first blog!  Second, I ditched my street cred, borrowed Sir Cliff Richard’s biography from my local library (really!) and headed out to his Algarve winery, Adega do Cantor, for an uncorked/unplugged [...]

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