The Wine Tasting Co. will be at the the Wedding Show Sunday 3rd October, 11.00 – 4pm. The Cadbury House Wedding Exhibition will be held at the new Doubletree by Hilton hotel. Opening at 11am the Cadbury Wedding Exhibition is free to enter and will feature many of the best wedding suppliers in the South West […]
I was fortunate enough to take part in the first picking of the Oatley harvest on Sunday 26th September. Included in this harvest was my partner Matthew and my two nieces Ellie 12 and Rhianna 8. They had to join in by default but all seemed keen and not to many moans on the 7am […]
In white wine they could look like small pieces of clear glass. In red they look like small pieces of red glass. Known as wine diamonds, they are in fact tartrate crystals and can appear if the wine is kept at a very cold temperature. They do not effect the taste of the wine and will not […]
‘The point of drinking wine is… To taste sunlight trapped in a bottle, and to remember some stony slope in Tucany or a village by the Gironde.’ John Mortimer 1923
The 3 Peaks certainly was a challenge and have an extremely sore knee and sore muscles to prove, stairs are showing me problems! We were in a group of 7, I walked mostly with a guy called Dave as we had the same pace on. He did 3 Triathlons last year! Brave man. We set off […]
Here’s a couple of photos, minus the crowds (it was early) from Puxton Park Wedding Show that we attended on Thursday 16th September. We had a successful show with numerous enquires and both for our wedding wine service and also home wine tasting parties. We’ll be attending the Cadbury House Wedding Exhibition on Sunday 3rd […]
Thank you to the Hairdressers and Health & Beauty salons that have kindly put the Wine Tasting Co. promotional material out for their customers. The winner of the bottle of Sparkling Wine is Headlines in Worle High Street, Somerset. More winners will be advertised in the next edition of the news letter.
Just before I head up the mountains… We have the Friday Fact – Anosmic – for some physical reason unable to use their sense of smell to the full.
This is where we see that drinking is different to tasting, drinking is natural whereas tasting is a skill and as with anything, practice makes perfect! Firstly lets look at the tongue and where we can detect certain basic elements. At the back in the middle we detect bitterness, the sides towards the back is […]
You may wonder why I haven’t posted any tasting notes for a while. I do appolgise for this but I have been tee total for the last 2 weeks as I’m off to do the 3 Peaks Challenge this weekend. I thought I would have had a 2 week rest as part of my training. Never fear […]
