Category: Food & Wine

Reservations about the business lunch

  As Commercial Director of our wholesale arm, Fields, Morris & Verdin, Damian Carrington knows only too well the importance of the working lunch – so why is it increasingly disappearing from the menu? I’m not sure if I have a ‘readership’ as such but I do picture in my mind’s eye what you might […]

Pairing wine with game birds

In our new series food writer Susie Carter takes a look at how to successfully pair wines with key ingredients. This month she tackles the best bottles to make the most of the British game bird season Feathered game tends to fall into two categories – the paler meat of partridge and pheasant and the […]

Ratings winners

Damian Carrington, Commercial Director of our wholesale arm, Fields, Morris & Verdin – and a well-seasoned veteran of dining out – on what it takes to elevate a respectable restaurant experience to a truly remarkable one How do you judge a restaurant? What really makes the difference between the truly great and the merely good? […]

Pairing wine with chicken

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 […]