This year we’ve dutifully tasted our way through lots and lots of chocolates, cheeses, crackers and even held a Christmas pudding tasting to make sure that the contents of our Christmas Gift Parcels were nothing short of exceptional.  The star in our collection is the Best of British Gift Hamper, a collection of Britain’s top […]

As Christmas approaches I am bracing myself for six weeks of early starts and late nights delivering in London. But after 27 years, I still relishes each round. My normal day starts at 8.30am and ends at 6pm, but at Christmas it starts at 7am and won’t end till 10pm. The number of drops I […]

Oh, the many wonders of Sherry. In my mind it is undeniably the world’s most underrated, underpriced and truly splendid wine. Now, I’m not really talking about the sweet tasteless stuff that Auntie Mavis used to drink with the Queen’s speech on Christmas Day, I’m enthusing about the serious, nutty, complex, mouth-watering delights of the […]

I get often asked: “What wine would you drink if your days were numbered?” It is a very difficult question to answer, not because I don’t have my preferences, favourites or have never experienced a wine moment where I said to myself:  “This wine is a proper one, whose transparency lets its sense of place […]