In our new series food writer Susie Carter takes a look at how to successfully pair wines with key ingredients. This month it’s the turn of the UK’s most-consumed meat: chicken. The first time I really became aware of the nuances of food and wine matching was at a friend’s Chardonnay tasting. We compared six […]

In our new series, food writer Susie Carter takes a look at which wines pair most successfully with some of our favourite foods. She begins by taking us through the key principles of food and wine pairing. When I first started studying food and wine pairing I thought it was going to be easy. As […]

For many people, the thought of textbooks, revision and exams is not one to be relished; but make sampling a dozen interesting, well-crafted wines a requirement of every lesson and it becomes a different story… I’ve just completed the Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET) advanced course and I’m now nervously awaiting the results. The […]