Sarah Ahmed – The Wine Detective

The Goring – food and wine matches made in heaven

This time last week, I presented a tasting for Waitrose Food Illustrated readers at The Goring hotel, London.  I must say, I can’t remember a food and wine match that has rendered so many so speechless for such a sustained period of time.  Long and intense on flavour, stem ginger chocolate fondant with drambuie clotted [...]

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Re-framing Riesling at Framingham, New Zealand

This time last year, I was in eager anticipation of my Riesling-focused trip to Australia (reported here).  As part of my “limbering up” process, I checked out what was happening in, on the face of it, a climate/country better-suited to Riesling – New Zealand.  With one notable exception, Framingham, I was (and have been) generally [...]

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