Thursday Focus: Blind Tasting
Today, being a Thursday, I should be posting a lovely, in depth “focus piece”, but my life, being my life, is just a teeny bit too busy at the moment for me to have managed to write anything quite...
View ArticleTuesday Tasting: Riding blind
It’s my lovely hubby’s birthday today, so this is another teeny post. I probably ought to be a little more sociable, but currently we’re watching a movie that neither of us enjoying greatly – Due Date,...
View ArticleMonday Memory: Dumplings, tastings and the Rusty Stork
Radio silence over the last week due to being locked away in the first year Master of Wine seminar in Rust, Austria. There was internet access, but there simply was not the sort of downtime required to...
View ArticleThursday Thoughts: Blinded by Food; Planet of the Grapes
Can you believe it’s February already? Seriously, what happened to January? Did it cut class and go home early? It only seems like yesterday that I was wrestling the turkey into the oven and the kids...
View ArticleWednesday Wine: Mistress of Wine in training
Think this will probably be the last of my catch-up posts on last week’s activity as I have a rather wonderful couple of tastings in the office tomorrow that I suspect I may wish to wax lyrical over...
View ArticleSaturday Study: Feeling the fear
Yesterday marked the final course day before the Master of Wine First Year Assessment, so I was hoping for a really positive experience. I didn’t really get that sadly; had an absolute nightmare with...
View ArticleMonday Musing: Reaching blindly…
Really honestly a very short post tonight as the aforemention study-related panic demands that I actually attempt to do something slightly more constructive than just write about The Fear. One of my...
View ArticleCome Wine With Me: Chancery, Blind Tasting, Dinner…
Hola! Back from a relaxing week in sunny spain, returning to showers of rain and gold medals in the Olympics. One far more welcome than the other. The week away was great, but was not a great culinary...
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