Tag archives for wine
Grape Expectations
STEVEN SHORT talks to local entrepreneurs Jamie and Steph of Vine + Country Tours and gets the inside track on local vineyards with a wine tour. Jamie Thompson was working…
Unusual wines – on your doorstep
By Jennifer Meredith The nights are still a little longer than we’d like, and the weather leaves a lot to be desired; but luckily for us, we live in a…
DRINKING CULTURE: The Future of English Wine
By Michael Smith, Borough Wines I have seen the future of English wine, and it’s up the road in Peasmarsh. It’s natural, it’s experimental, and it is delicious in ways…
Midsummer Fish Festival – Support Hastings’ Fleet!
What follows is a press release from Hastings Borough Council. Hastings Midsummer Fish Festival is back for a fifth year. The event takes place on 23 and 24 June on…
Something Fishy by Ken Maitland
It’s time for the annual Midsummer Fish Festival here in Hastings, so what sort of wine should we be looking for to bring out the best in the catch? The…
In Vino Veritas? By Ken Maitland
No doubt most of you are by now tired of reading about politics and are currently either celebrating success, drowning sorrows or, like me, soberly wondering what on earth the…
New World/Old World… Chaqu’un a son gout
by Tracey Claridge In the 1970s the choice of wines available on the High St was poor. Brands such as German Blue Nun Liebfraumilch, Bulls Blood from Hungary, Mateus Rosé…
Claridge’s Wine A Taste of Clarets
Tracey Claridge Bonjour! Every year around the beginning of April samples of the top wines of Bordeaux are shown to the Wine Trade for the first time. The wines are very youthful, having only…
Claridge’s Wine – Biodynamism – a load of old voodoo?
Tracey Claridge Organic wine in on the increase worldwide. Production is from grapes grown without synthetic fungicides, herbicides or fertilizers. The environment is respected, vines grow in living soil, full…