Took a quick trip down to Berry Bros. & Rudd (BBR) today. Lucy needed to drop off a shirt for one of her clients in St James’s so a good excuse for me to visit the grandest wine store in London.
BBR is Britain’s oldest wine merchant and they have a great back-story. The company was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘california’
A Flying Visit to Berry Bros Gives Way to a Frogs Leap
Posted in WOTW News, tagged bbr, berry bros, cabernet sauvignon, california, frogs leap on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ridge Geyserville
Posted in Video Magic, WOTW News, tagged berry bros, california, geyserville, monte bello, ridge, the wine society, zinfandel on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I first discovered Ridge Geyserville at a Wine Society Committee meeting in 2006. These meetings were invariably frustrating affairs – like a kind of parish council meeting writ large. And yet, the pain was (nearly) always eased by great food provided by the caterers at RIBA and awesome wines chosen by The Society’s fine wine [...]
Voting Irregularities as Obama gets set to declare “It’s the Economy Stupid”
Posted in But Seriously..., WOTW News, tagged california, obama, oddbins, palin, somefield, zinfandel on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here we go again! Voting irregularities, electors facing poll closures before they can mark their “X” and electronic machines short-circuiting due to rain storms. God Bless America, it makes you long for the hanging chad.
Obama or McCain is the choice that faces the voters in the bankrupt superpower across the Atlantic and we Brits are [...]