“Think, for a moment, of an almost paper-white glass of liquid, just shot with greeny-gold, just tart on your tongue, full of wild flower scents and spring-water freshness. And think of a burnt-umber fluid, as smooth as syrup in the glass, as fat as butter to smell and sea-deep with strange flavours. Both are wine.
Wine is grape-juice. Every drop of liquid filling so many bottles has been drawn out of the ground by the …
It’s been a bit quiet on the blog recently. And that only ever happens when things are crazy busy elsewhere. The last two weeks have raced by in a haze with the end of the Burgundy 2008 campaign, the hustle and bustle of the Bibendum Times tasting and the start of our February Sale. The last two weeks of January are perhaps the busiest of the year here at Bibendum HQ.
Anyway, things have calmed down …
After months of build up (we first sat down to talk about the theme way back in the Summer), tomorrow is the day Bibendum Times finally explodes into life down at the Saatchi Gallery. Nearly 200 winemakers will be pouring over 1000 different wines and the RSVP list just gets longer and longer every time we look at it.
Hopefully, by now many of you will have visited the Bibendum Times website …
Remember running around the Saatchi Gallery last January madly trying to taste over 800 wines from over 200 producers? Remember getting distracted by sculptures, Twitter tastings, winemakers, spirits and everything else that was going on? Recall producing one of the amazing 300 canvases visitors produced that we featured on Art Attack Fridays on this blog?
Well, it’s time to do it all over again – only this year things are a little …
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